Re: Printer server redundancy

That article specifically refers to windows 2003. I can't find an equivalent one for W2K. Can you post a link? TIA.

Regards,
Hank Arnold

Vincent Xu [MSFT] wrote:
Hi,

I think you'd better to build a cluster for the printer server.

278455 How to Set Up a Clustered Print Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=278455

Hope this helps.

I'll appreciate your understanding that our migration newsgroup mainly focus on the process of migration resource between domains. For your issue, I think following newsgroup would be more approprate if you need further assistance:

microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering

Thanks.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Here is our situation. We have alot of network printers which were
added to our Windows 2000 print server (SP4) and are shared from there.
Also they are listed in Active Directory. What would be the best way to
establish print server redundancy? For example if our print server
computer is down, I would still like to allow out clients to print to
network printers.
I learned about the Microsoft Print Migrator tool and it works very
well however is there a way to "switch" clients to use another print
server (with exactly the same printers defined) if primary print server
goes down?



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