Link to networking printers

[Ray]

Hi there,

I moved all of our printers to another server (different computer name), I'm
wondering how to let user connect to those networking printers.

Or someone can tell me how to connect/disconnect networking printer by
command, such as, "net use" or something else??? It's really tough job to
move networking printers, I have to connect each printer for each user on
the same computer.

Please help.

Ray

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

If you've decommissioned the original print server, you can actually repoint
DNS (either using an alias or an address record) to the new server.

You need to make a registry hack for the new server to respond to the old
server's name.

Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server
2003-based computer may not work with an alias name
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281308

From there on, each time you migrate print servers, you can just repoint the
DNS record. Combined with PrintMig to back up and restore print server
configuration, it's a cheap but fairly effective way of making sure you can
recover easily from a print server failure.

This isn't the only solution, but it's one that works well for me.

Hope this helps

Oli

 

[Ray]

If you've decommissioned the original print server, you can actually
repoint DNS (either using an alias or an address record) to the new
server.

In fact, I did try to repoint DNS record, but it seems didn't work. I'll try
again.

Anyway, thank you for your experience.

Ray

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Did you do disable strict name checking last time you tried? If not, that's
why it didn't work.

Also, be sure to clear the DNS cache of the machine you're testing from by
running "ipconfig /flushdns".

Cheers

Oli

 

[Ray]

Oli,

I tried again, it doesn't work. What does "disable strict name checking"
mean?

Thank you.

Ray

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Strict name checking is the setting that the KB article I referenced
describes how to disable.

When you say "it didn't work", what do you mean? Any error messages? When
you ping the aliased name, do you get the same IP address as the server
hosting the printers?

Oli

 

[Ray]

Hi Oil,

I appreciate your help. I'm sorry that I didn't notice the URL you gave to
me.

After I disabled the strict name checking, it seems that everything is
working on my computer. Let's see whether there is any problem with other
computers.

From that article, it seems "disable the strict name on server" doesn't
affect anything else, I mean, because the server is our domain controller,
will this setting do harm to the controller? Including security? Thanks
again.

Ray