Re: Manage printers on remote computer

Im trying to work on something very similar, all my computers are 2003
and XP though. But it would be better to have the script/batch
portable to older systems.

The rundll32 command is very cool. I got the following command to add
a network printer when run from a machine

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIentry /in /c\\<local_machine_name>
/n\\<server_name>\<printer_name>

However I would like it to be more full featured, meaning that if I
changed the port on the server all the clients when they run the
script/cmd would get the printer at the new port.

The Windows Script repository had the following script for mapping
printers:

Set WshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")

WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\PrintServer1\Xerox300"
WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\PrintServer1\Xerox300"

But this doesn't work at all. When Option Explicit is added to the
begining it generates an error with Variable is undefined: 'WshNetwork'

Using rundll32 in my above method, will it pick up port changes on the
server and put the client on the new port. Or would a seperate script
have to be run to remove the old network connected printer? I tried -

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn

To remove a network connected printer, but not matter how I specified
host/printer it always generated an error.

Thanks for any help.

.

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