Migrating HP printers from Nt4 to 2000

[Guest]

I recently upgraded my domain from NT4 to 2000 and all went well. I still
have the NT4 PDC of the old domain running and it hosts all the printers as
was the case before the upgrade.

All 2000 domain users can access the printers on the old server
without any problems. The h/w on the old NT4 PDC is not reliable and I would
like to migrate all the printers over to the new 2000 domain controller
before retiring the old PDC.

Any suggestions that might help me facilitate the migration process would be
greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Khurram

 

[Guest]

Create the printer queues on W2K server and share it out to your users. You
will then need to update the clients with the new printer shares. You can
you scriptlogic.com scripts or use kix logon to push out the new shares to
your users. Let me know if you want more details. I can provide you some
sample script.

 

[Guest]

Mike,

Thank you for your reply. I was able to migrate the printers from NT4 to
2000 using MS Printer Migration utility 3.1 and it worked like a charm. I
would like to see a sample script to push the new shares to clients per your
suggestion if possible.

Khurram

 

[Guest]

You can run this in a batch file.

Removing existing printer shares.
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n \\lskdny_fs1\L38-A1
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n \\lskdny_fs1\L38-A2
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n \\lskdny_fs1\L38-A3

Adding printer shares.
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\lskdfs2\L38-A1
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\lskdfs2\L38-A2
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\lskdfs2\L38-A3

Let me know if this helps you.

Regards,
Michael