How to retrieve Driver information for Network Printer?

Sorry xxdcmast,

I think I need to be more specific. The servers where I need to install drivers dont need to connect to printers or have them connected ever. Its the .NET code which will automatically send the documents to these. What is needed is the driver installed on these.

On the initial suggestions, I cannot log on to the print server. All I have is a list of printers (100+) which belong to about 7-10 print servers. Is there a way to get the driver information just knowing \<printer">\\<server>\<printer name>?

Also most importantly, I canot get all printers from the each print server as there are selective list of printers from each print server.

Hope I'm able to explain it clear this time. Pls let me know if you need further information.

Regards,

Nikhil

Well you may be able to try running some WMI commands against the print servers themselves. Im not sure if you will get an access denied message though, not sure what your permissions are.

I just ran this against my local machine and it looks pretty good. Not really sure if it will help you though. You will need to modify the script with the name of the print server.

strComputer = "FullComputerName" 
strDomain = "DOMAIN" 
Wscript.StdOut.Write "Please enter your user name:"
strUser = Wscript.StdIn.ReadLine 
Set objPassword = CreateObject("ScriptPW.Password")
Wscript.StdOut.Write "Please enter your password:"
strPassword = objPassword.GetPassword()
Wscript.Echo
 
Set objSWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") 
Set objWMIService = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer(strComputer, _ 
    "root\CIMV2", _ 
    strUser, _ 
    strPassword, _ 
    "MS_409", _ 
    "ntlmdomain:" + strDomain) 
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
    "SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer",,48) 
For Each objItem in colItems 
    Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
    Wscript.Echo "Win32_Printer instance"
    Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
    Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
    Wscript.Echo "DeviceID: " & objItem.DeviceID
    Wscript.Echo "DriverName: " & objItem.DriverName
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
    Wscript.Echo "PortName: " & objItem.PortName
    Wscript.Echo "PrintProcessor: " & objItem.PrintProcessor
    Wscript.Echo "ServerName: " & objItem.ServerName
    Wscript.Echo "ShareName: " & objItem.ShareName
    Wscript.Echo "SystemName: " & objItem.SystemName
Next

                                              

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And if your wondering how I created this I used WMI code creator. It can be found here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2cc30a64-ea15-4661-8da4-55bbc145c30e&displaylang=en

This may actually help you out a lot because you will be able to browse the WMI repositories and find what you are looking for. The ones I searched in were win32_printer and win32_printerdriver

Thanks xxdcmast... this was just incredible... never used SWbemLocator

But even this wants me to log on to the server and needs to have admin rights. It is the very much similar result what I'm getting from prnmngr.vbs, which I already tried.

Looks like I'll need to write a program to get all printer drivers from the print server (using prnmngr.vbs) and ask someone in operations to run it. Then write another program to extract my printers information and then 3rd and 4th to apply these to the needed 30+ servers... Hooooshhhhsssssss :-(

But I'll still want to give you few points, dont know how?

Regards,

Nik

Oh O...

Can a Moderator allot 200 points to xxdcmast please?

Thanks again,

Nik

Just an update, what your script does is something I used to do already using:

cscript prnmngr.vbs -s <server name> -l

It gives me info as below:

Server name <server name>
Printer name ACCPAY04
Share name ACCPAY04
Driver name HP LaserJet 4
Port name IP_10.3.132.14
Comment
Location
Print processor WinPrint
Data type RAW
Parameters
Attributes 8264
Priority 1
Default priority 0
Status Unknown
Average pages per minute 0

Regards,

Nikhil