Setting up a print server, and......

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Right now our Print Server for the company is on a NT 4 Server box. What I'd
like to do is setup a Windows 2000 Print server and move all the printers
over to it.

I have a general idea of all the steps involved, but the last step is
perhaps the most annoying. Once all the printers are installed on the
Windows 2000 server, how do I have all the clients switch over....Uggh.

Do I have to go to every client PC in the building, and delete, the printer
then add the 'new' printer with the new print server location? Is there a
Windows 2000 tool that would do this for me?

 

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On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:46:11 -0700, "Courtney R" <CourtneyR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Right now our Print Server for the company is on a NT 4 Server box. What I'd
>like to do is setup a Windows 2000 Print server and move all the printers
>over to it.
>
>I have a general idea of all the steps involved, but the last step is
>perhaps the most annoying. Once all the printers are installed on the
>Windows 2000 server, how do I have all the clients switch over....Uggh.
>
>Do I have to go to every client PC in the building, and delete, the printer
>then add the 'new' printer with the new print server location? Is there a
>Windows 2000 tool that would do this for me?

If you name the W2K box the same as the NT4 box,
you can use tip 75 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com
to export the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares key and import it to the
new server.

 

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But really Jesus, how are ya gonna fix my DC Replication problem!!!

"Jerold Schulman" wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:46:11 -0700, "Courtney R" <CourtneyR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Right now our Print Server for the company is on a NT 4 Server box. What I'd
> >like to do is setup a Windows 2000 Print server and move all the printers
> >over to it.
> >
> >I have a general idea of all the steps involved, but the last step is
> >perhaps the most annoying. Once all the printers are installed on the
> >Windows 2000 server, how do I have all the clients switch over....Uggh.
> >
> >Do I have to go to every client PC in the building, and delete, the printer
> >then add the 'new' printer with the new print server location? Is there a
> >Windows 2000 tool that would do this for me?
>
> If you name the W2K box the same as the NT4 box,
> you can use tip 75 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com
> to export the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares key and import it to the
> new server.
>
>