finding attached printer on remote machines

A

Altria

Hello All,
How can i list/remove attached printers on a remote workstation from the
print server?
Is there a way?
TIA,
Altria
 
B

Bruce Sanderson

See http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Printer Scripts.htm.

The scripts on that page are included in Windows XP and 2003. So, if the
print server is Windows 2000, they won't be on the print server, but you
could run the script from any Windows XP computer.

In particular:

cscript prnmngr.vbs -l [-s RemoteComputer] [-u UserName -w Password]
 
A

Altria

Thanks Bruce,
Yeah i found out about XP extended features to run these programs. Although
it works from my xp machine machine I am unable to run it using pstools on a
remote machine any ideas why?
TIA,
Altria
Bruce Sanderson said:
See http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Printer Scripts.htm.

The scripts on that page are included in Windows XP and 2003. So, if the
print server is Windows 2000, they won't be on the print server, but you
could run the script from any Windows XP computer.

In particular:

cscript prnmngr.vbs -l [-s RemoteComputer] [-u UserName -w Password]

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



Altria said:
Hello All,
How can i list/remove attached printers on a remote workstation from the
print server?
Is there a way?
TIA,
Altria
 
B

Bruce Sanderson

I'm not really familiar with "pstools". If the target computer is not
running Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server, I suspect it will be missing some
things that are required by these scripts I referred to.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



Altria said:
Thanks Bruce,
Yeah i found out about XP extended features to run these programs.
Although it works from my xp machine machine I am unable to run it using
pstools on a remote machine any ideas why?
TIA,
Altria
Bruce Sanderson said:
See http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Printer Scripts.htm.

The scripts on that page are included in Windows XP and 2003. So, if the
print server is Windows 2000, they won't be on the print server, but you
could run the script from any Windows XP computer.

In particular:

cscript prnmngr.vbs -l [-s RemoteComputer] [-u UserName -w Password]

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



Altria said:
Hello All,
How can i list/remove attached printers on a remote workstation from the
print server?
Is there a way?
TIA,
Altria
 

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