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Changing printer share names

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by mteal

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Does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to change printer share names on a network with Windows 95/98 clients as well as NT Workstations?

The share name doesn't affect the NT workstations one bit. However, it does affect Windows 95/98. Is there an alternative to having to reinstall all of the printers manually on each workstation?

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by rkelly

In answer to your question it depends how the printers were installed on your 9x Clients.

If the printers were captured to LPT ports then it is simply a matter of modifying logon scripts to modify the capture settings.

NET USE LPT1: \\server\share

providing that you haven't changed the printer drivers then this works fine.

by rkelly

Alternatively you could use a printer redirection. Leave the print device enabled on your original print server and point its port to the new print port. You will have to add a new digital port for this to work, add the UNC path of the new printer and all traffic will be redirected- you will however lose information about who has sent to the jobs to the queue however.

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