Migrating users printers to a different server

[andrew]

I have a server with 50 printers on it. These printers have been set up by hand on hundreds of Workstations on our network (all NT). I now want to migrate all the users to the printers on a new server. I have already created the printers on the new server with the exact same names as on the old server.

My question is how can I, using login scripts, force all the users to change their printer connections to the new print server. (I can not just rename the new server as the old server will stay with it's existing name)

[Craig Hope]

If you are migrating to a new server with a different name you will HAVE to change the print share UNC on the local workstations (I think you know that). You can use a resource kit util called con2prt that will connect a machine to a network printer from a login script (command line). It has switches to set default printers. This will raise another logistic question as to whether your workstations can run a unqique portion of the script. You could attach all the desktops to all 50 printers and have the user set their default printer or based on global groups script which printer to connect to.

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andrew at 4/13/00 7:02:08 AM

I have a server with 50 printers on it. These printers have been set up by hand on hundreds of Workstations on our network (all NT). I now want to migrate all the users to the printers on a new server. I have already created the printers on the new server with the exact same names as on the old server.

My question is how can I, using login scripts, force all the users to change their printer connections to the new print server. (I can not just rename the new server as the old server will stay with it's existing name)