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Renaming a printer in Windows 2003
If I rename a Windows 2003 printer that is a network printer will the workstations pick up the new name?
Windows Server 2003Microsoft Server OS
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Adrian Wilson
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Hello lanman777,
No, you need to recreate the printer on the workstation
Regards.
No, you need to recreate the printer on the workstation
Regards.
If you don't rename the *share*, then as far as the clients are concerned, nothing should change. Clients address the share name, not the printer name.
Afraid not, if you try and rename a shared printer it will kill the share itself with the attached warning message displayed.
Printers.png
Printers.png
Addendum.. it won't kill the share but will kill the client connection to that share.
I just renamed a printer shared on a W2k3 server and could still happily print from a client that already had this printer mapped (without reconnecting this printer).
My apologies, I'm doing this in Windows 2008.
If you put a new name, it wont immediately take effect.