Re: Adding global printers to XP

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From: Cari \(MS-MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 10/07/04


Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:47:54 -0700

See Bruce Sanderson's article at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm

And ensure the Print Spooler on the PC that the printer is attached to (and
the XP Printers) is started. From the Command Prompt, type

net start spooler

-- 
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com
"steveo" <steveo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:4F6F00ED-EFDE-45B2-B468-F1E986362ED7@microsoft.com...
>I have been using the  rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry command to add
> global printers to our W2k PC's. Now that we are rolling out XP I haven't
> been able to get this command to work. I keep getting the error message 
> that
> the print subsystem is unavailable. Does anyone know what needs to be 
> setup
> or changed to make this work in XP.
> 


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