Love the name!

Have you tried doing a search on this board for ADDPRINTERCONNECTION?

I bet you will find an example script to do just what you want.

Rgds

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Don Davidson
Network Engineer
http://www.insight-media.co.uk

I giggle as I type that name! :-)

OK, we ARE talking about Win9x here. I had a problem on setting up printers on Win9x clients manually! Until I discovered my share names for the printers were over 8 characters long! And the printer names were too!

So I renamed them all (9 in total) so that the printer names and share names were all 8 characters long and NO more. This allowed the Win9x clients to connect to the printers and update the drivers from the server etc.

Try this out with 1 printer and try not to include any - or _ in the name if poss!

I may be barking up the wrong tree here but this COULD be the problem.

Oh (just in case) did you read this thread?
http://kixtart.to/script/board/ubbhtml/Forum2/HTML/000072.html
They mention a con2prt utility.

Good luck.
Don

Damn it!

I am running out of ideas here.

I know the manual mentions that ADDPRINTERCONNECTION works for NT and doesn't mention Win9x, I just wish I knew what that error code is?

What happens if you try and connect to a printer manually? What registry key/s is/are created.

Our printers are set up with print servers and the drivers are installed on the server, (not using lpr) as I have not tried to use the ADDPRINTERCONNECTION with this set up I feel I may be the wrong guy to help. But I will keep trying.

Anyone any ideas out there?
Thanks
Don

Error 120 is "120-This function is only valid in Win32 mode"

This could be pointing to the fact these are Win9x machines and not NT.

From what I have seen on this board everyone who tried addprinterconnection have had trouble and has gone to con2prt utility.

Unless someone out there knows different?
Ta
Don

Ok, I have just tried addprinterconnection on my system using a test script and user.

Same problems as MrPotatoHead! How silly does that sound!!

Looks like it don't work for Win9x (as per manual) I hate to say it, but it looks like a con2prt job.

Rgds
Don

Is Con2prt.exe for NT? According to MS it don't mention it will work with Win9x!

See here:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/6/63.ASP

I suppose it could be tried, suck it and see?

Rgds

I have used the following to successfully move my clients (NT & 95) from one print server to another.

Hope you find this workable.

Trevor

;Script to move printer from -Srv1- to -Srv5-
If @InWin=1
If AddPrinterConnection("\\Srv5\hplj8000")=0
$result=DelPrinterConnection("\\Srv1\hplj8000")
EndIf
Else
$PrintSrv=ReadValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\Print\Printers\HP LaserJet 8000 Series PCL 6","Port")
If $PrintSrv="\\Srv1\hplj8000"
$Srv5=WriteValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\Print\Printers\HP LaserJet 8000 Series PCL 6","Port","\\Srv5\hplj8000","REG_SZ")
If @error=0
$result=SetDefaultPrinter("HP LaserJet 8000 Series PCL 6")
EndIf
EndIf
EndIf