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by srgroves

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I need to install over 80 printers at one time on several machines running 98se. Am I stuck installing them one at a time or is there a way to "dump" and register many printers at one time? The way it is being handled now is to install and name the printers one at a time from a 2000 server.

Hope there is an answer out there and I hope the points are ok. This is my first post and don't have many points yet.

Thanks, steve

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by maxwell edison

Greetings,

Check out this link:

http://www.gates.sols.org/en/networkprinter.htm

(REMOVE SPACES if they snuck into the pasted URL)

It?s an instructional article by Bill Gates (he really did write it) titled, ?Adding a Network Printer to User Profiles After Lockdown?.

I haven?t tried it, but it looks quite interesting. (But I will try it.) Perhaps it will steer you in the right direction.

Good luck,

Maxwell

by maxwell edison

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Upon looking at that article more closely, I realized that it refered to user profiles, not user accounts. An interesting article, nonetheless.

However, I did run across a utility called, "EasySpooler". It has the following description:

"The quickadd program adds up to 32,764 printers in one easy step. Call it from the command line to add a single printer, or from a shell script to add many printers. The shell script is a collection of quickadd commands, as the examples below show: one command per line with the last line including the -s parameter to re-sort the printer control file. If the printer already exists, the program considers the parameters as a change request.

The general command syntax for quickadd is:

quickadd [ -s ] [ -d dirname ] lp*** device_name [ location_name ] "

The link to the information page is:

http://www.easyspooler.com/faq020.html

There's an additional link on that page for a download (although I didn't download it myself). I don't know if it's free or not.

Regards,

Maxwell

by srgroves

Thanks again for the comments. The current need for this has past but I will keep lookoing for the future.

by srgroves

Maxwell,

Thank you fo rthe assistance. I checked out the EasySpooler and it did look like what I needed, but it is only for NT/2000/Unix. I need a utility like that for 98.

Thanks.

by srgroves

Unless I am reading this incorrectly, this does show how to add a printer to print to an easyspooler printer, but does not allow you to add multiple printers to the 98 client in one step. Thanks again though.

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