Moving Print Queues

[jaybo71]

Hi,

I have 180 print queues to migrate off on an old NW4.11 box over the next few weeks. I am looking to avoid re-creating each queue on the new server and re-associating it with the printer object. Not looking towards NDPS at the moment, just looking to move the queues as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Anyone have a suggestion that may help me expedite my task here?

Thanks again in advance.

 

[terry712]

bummer

if you are migrating to a new server then a dsmaint will keep queues ok

if not then i beleive jbutils has a q mover

 

[marvhuffaker]

Not that pretty, but here is how from A Novell Appnote.


Moving Print Services to Another Server

The procedure for moving legacy print services from one NetWare server to another is a little more involved. The steps are as follows.

1. Determine the Object ID of the print queue you want to move. This can be accomplished using PCONSOLE, DSVIEW.NLM, or DSBROWSE.NLM. This will give you the name of the corresponding .QDR directory name located under the volume:QUEUES directory.

2. On the NetWare volume to which you are moving the print queue, create a QUEUES directory (if it doesn't already exist) directly under the root, and then create the .QDR directory under that, using the name determined in the previous step.

3. Update the Print Queue object's Queue Directory and Volume attributes with the name of the new volume.

4. Update the Print Queue object's Host Server attribute with the name of the new server.

5. Update the Print Server object's Host Device attribute with the name of the new server.

6. Restart any print servers (PSERVER.NLM or dedicated hardware-based print servers) so the new server and volume information will be used.

7. For Windows NT/2000 machines, update the HostServer, HostAddress, and HostAddresstype key values of the two Registry keys discussed above.

8. Restart all Windows workstations, as they may cache the volume and server information in memory.

These steps are best performed when no print jobs are pending in the queue and when users are logged out of the network (so they are not submitting new jobs).

Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

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