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we do it by having printers assigned thru a login script. if the server goes down we can just change the script to the other server. it's also good if the printer breaks we can point those people to another printer quickly
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we do it by having printers assigned thru a login script. if the server goes down we can just change the script to the other server. it's also good if the printer breaks we can point those people to another printer quickly

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This would imply that the users have to log out and log in again. Is there any way this could be automated ?
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This would imply that the users have to log out and log in again. Is there any way this could be automated ?

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presumably, in our printer script, if the server name was a DNS CNAME as JamesDS suggested, that would make it so they didnt need to logout. But we'd still have to alter the DNS record. 
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presumably, in our printer script, if the server name was a DNS CNAME as JamesDS suggested, that would make it so they didnt need to logout. But we'd still have to alter the DNS record.

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Currently we have one print server which all printers are shared from, when this goes down - everything goes down.<br />
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I want to set up some kind of printer redundancy - kind of like a DFS share for printers. Does anybody know if this is possible or know of any solutions that would give us some kind of printer backup?
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Currently we have one print server which all printers are shared from, when this goes down - everything goes down.

I want to set up some kind of printer redundancy - kind of like a DFS share for printers. Does anybody know if this is possible or know of any solutions that would give us some kind of printer backup?

Backup printer server

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