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Moving a printer from a netware queue to IP

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secutanudu

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We have printers associated with netware print queues, and we want to get rid of the queues and switch to IP Printing.

Is there a way to move a currently installed printer(one currently associated with a netware queue) to a TCP/IP port? When I go to properties of one of these printers, it does not let me switch the port, and the "Add port" button is grayed out. Is there a way to move it to a TCP/IP port without having to reinstall the print driver?

Thanks,
Andrew
 
you can create a second instance of the same printer. go to add a printer, local printer (do not autodetect) - then create port, standard tcp/ip port, enter proper ip address, then answer to use the existing driver (it usually finds the existing driver). it will create "printer_name(2)" and will be using the tcp/ip port.

if it doesnt "see" the existing driver, just browse to the original printer driver install point and it will find and use the INF file for the driver.
 
Thanks for the post - what we were trying to avoid was re-installing the printer (it takes a lot of time when we do it for a few hundred machines). Is there any way to switch the current instance of the printer to a new port?
 
you would have to reinstall the printer as IP in any case... bcastner has specified a link to install this printer via a login script.

at my site we recently did this...

novell -> IP -> windows srv

and we had to run loginscripts for each jump
 
How do you install a printer using that command as IP? It seems to be looking for \\Server\PrinterName
 
My recommendation is to setup a print server on an extra PC. IP printing is nice, but get tiring when having to do it oon a bunch of machines. I just setup a print server on a P3 \ OS: WIN2K. It has been working great. I work for an engineering firm which has hugh plots.
 
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