Setting up a Print Server for first time!

[Guest Flash3200]

I need to create a Print Server and have never done so before. We

currently print by just using direct IP printing from each

workstation, but are looking to go to a Server Queue so that we can

consolidate printers. I was not able to find any good documentation

on Microsoft.com for how to properly set up a print server. The

server for this is 2003 R2 SP2. Thanks

[Guest Paul Mckenna]

RE: Setting up a Print Server for first time!

 

Basically you just set the printer up on your server the way you've done on

the PCs in the past and then share it, then on the client PCs tell them to

print to the servers shared printer rather than direct to the printers IP

Address, Let me know if you need more details.

 

Regards

Paul

 

"Flash3200" wrote:

> I need to create a Print Server and have never done so before. We

> currently print by just using direct IP printing from each

> workstation, but are looking to go to a Server Queue so that we can

> consolidate printers. I was not able to find any good documentation

> on Microsoft.com for how to properly set up a print server. The

> server for this is 2003 R2 SP2. Thanks

>

>

[Guest Flash3200]

Re: Setting up a Print Server for first time!

 

On Jul 20, 10:22 am, Paul Mckenna <JazzyJ...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

> Basically you just set the printer up on your server the way you've done on

> the PCs in the past and then share it, then on the client PCs tell them to

> print to the servers shared printer rather than direct to the printers IP

> Address, Let me know if you need more details.

>

> Regards

> Paul

>

>

>

> "Flash3200" wrote:

> > I need to create a Print Server and have never done so before. We

> > currently print by just using direct IP printing from each

> > workstation, but are looking to go to a Server Queue so that we can

> > consolidate printers. I was not able to find any good documentation

> > on Microsoft.com for how to properly set up a print server. The

> > server for this is 2003 R2 SP2. Thanks- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

 

So where does the Print Management tool come into play? Also, we have

heard about the ability for the user's to install thier own printers

by either looking the printer up and/or by looking at a published map

and clicking on the associate printer.

[Guest Paul]

Re: Setting up a Print Server for first time!

 

Hi,

 

I've never used Print Management tool as i don't have R2 but as far as i can

tell it's a management tool :) once the printer is shared on the server it

will allow you to do various things with it.

When you share the printer on the server you get the option to publish in

the active directory, Users will be able to set the printer up themselves on

their own machines by either searching the active directory or the add

printer wizard. I'm not sure what you mean by a published map. Or it seems

the print management tools allows you to assign the printer to certain groups.

 

Hope this helps

 

"Flash3200" wrote:

> On Jul 20, 10:22 am, Paul Mckenna <JazzyJ...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

> > Basically you just set the printer up on your server the way you've done on

> > the PCs in the past and then share it, then on the client PCs tell them to

> > print to the servers shared printer rather than direct to the printers IP

> > Address, Let me know if you need more details.

> >

> > Regards

> > Paul

> >

> >

> >

> > "Flash3200" wrote:

> > > I need to create a Print Server and have never done so before. We

> > > currently print by just using direct IP printing from each

> > > workstation, but are looking to go to a Server Queue so that we can

> > > consolidate printers. I was not able to find any good documentation

> > > on Microsoft.com for how to properly set up a print server. The

> > > server for this is 2003 R2 SP2. Thanks- Hide quoted text -

> >

> > - Show quoted text -

>

> So where does the Print Management tool come into play? Also, we have

> heard about the ability for the user's to install thier own printers

> by either looking the printer up and/or by looking at a published map

> and clicking on the associate printer.

>

>

[Guest SBS Rocker]

Re: Setting up a Print Server for first time!

 

You can always add the net use command to their login script so that it

connects when they login.

 

"Flash3200" <Flash3200@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> On Jul 20, 10:22 am, Paul Mckenna <JazzyJ...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

>> Basically you just set the printer up on your server the way you've done

>> on

>> the PCs in the past and then share it, then on the client PCs tell them

>> to

>> print to the servers shared printer rather than direct to the printers IP

>> Address, Let me know if you need more details.

>>

>> Regards

>> Paul

>>

>>

>>

>> "Flash3200" wrote:

>> > I need to create a Print Server and have never done so before. We

>> > currently print by just using direct IP printing from each

>> > workstation, but are looking to go to a Server Queue so that we can

>> > consolidate printers. I was not able to find any good documentation

>> > on Microsoft.com for how to properly set up a print server. The

>> > server for this is 2003 R2 SP2. Thanks- Hide quoted text -

>>

>> - Show quoted text -

>

> So where does the Print Management tool come into play? Also, we have

> heard about the ability for the user's to install thier own printers

> by either looking the printer up and/or by looking at a published map

> and clicking on the associate printer.

>

[Guest Bruce Sanderson]

Re: Setting up a Print Server for first time!

 

The Print Management Tool is quite useful for managing printers on print

servers - you can add printers, delete printers, change printer properties,

see printer driver properties etc. and, if you have Windows 2003 R2 domain

(or at least the domain schema has been updated with the R2 schema), you can

"push" network printers to user or computers (e.g. workstations) via GPO.

 

Print Management console is not an absolute requirement for print servers,

but it can make administering printers and print servers easier because it

provides a convenient, central place for doing so. If you have and Active

Directory domain you can manage who, or which computers, get which printers

defined for/on them automatically.

 

The Custom Printer Filter feature is useful to view information about a

subset of printers that have some attribute (e.g. Queue Status, Driver Name,

Location).

 

--

Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

 

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.

 

 

 

"Flash3200" <Flash3200@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> On Jul 20, 10:22 am, Paul Mckenna <JazzyJ...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

>> Basically you just set the printer up on your server the way you've done

>> on

>> the PCs in the past and then share it, then on the client PCs tell them

>> to

>> print to the servers shared printer rather than direct to the printers IP

>> Address, Let me know if you need more details.

>>

>> Regards

>> Paul

>>

>>

>>

>> "Flash3200" wrote:

>> > I need to create a Print Server and have never done so before. We

>> > currently print by just using direct IP printing from each

>> > workstation, but are looking to go to a Server Queue so that we can

>> > consolidate printers. I was not able to find any good documentation

>> > on Microsoft.com for how to properly set up a print server. The

>> > server for this is 2003 R2 SP2. Thanks- Hide quoted text -

>>

>> - Show quoted text -

>

> So where does the Print Management tool come into play? Also, we have

> heard about the ability for the user's to install thier own printers

> by either looking the printer up and/or by looking at a published map

> and clicking on the associate printer.

>