Remote printer renaming in XP

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The Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Prncnfg utility.
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBO/tip7300/rh7304.htm

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"Rob1971" wrote:

| We've recently moved buildings at work, as a result of this all the
| printer names on the XP workstations are now out-of-date and I'd like
| to change them, unfortunately I cannot think of a simple way to do
| this. Can anyone suggest a neat solution that doesn't involve visiting
| every workstation in turn?
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| We used to use Novell and NDPS to take care of this type of thing, but
| due to unresolved issues we no longer use NDPS to distribute printer
| drivers/updates, so all the machines are set up to use direct IP
| printing. I was hoping changing names would involve a simple registry
| amendment, which could be distributed via ZENworks, I've also tried to
| create a ZENworks object to do this, so far without success, but
| perhaps I've missed something obvious. Has anyone tried to do
| something like this and succeeded?