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Deleting Network Printers
My company has migrated from a windows NT server to a windows 2003 server system. Many of the clients had connections to shared printers from the old server. When I try to delete these old printers, I get an error message that says that I cannot delete the printer because the server is unavailable. This is going to be a problem because that server will not be online anymore. Does anybody know how to remove networked printers without having the computer that shared them available?
Log on the domin and on as a workgroup and try deleting the printers.
Failing that, log on locally as administator and do the same. I had this problem and i fixed it using one of the above methods.
Failing that, log on locally as administator and do the same. I had this problem and i fixed it using one of the above methods.
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We are using scripts as we did with the NT domain. Some printers are able to be deleted, but not all of them. For one reason or another we are using a canon ir600 and a HP designjet 450c that cannot be deleted without a server connection. I figured that it would be easy to do by just right clicking the printer and then deleting, but that has not been the case.
Sorry, my last post should have started....
Log OFF the domin............
Log OFF the domin............
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What type of login scripting do you use? It would be easy to add a 'delprinterconnection' command in a kix logon script. it still seems odd to me that you it won't let you delete the printer.
kris.