Guest pcmangler@googlemail.com Posted November 20, 2007 Posted November 20, 2007 Hi, As part of the way my company does server upgrades, we install a temporary server (a DC for it's own 'TEMP' domain) running SQL and our software, then put Remote Desktop Client on the site's PC's pointing at the temporary server, allowing them to continue using our software via RDP whilst we rebuild their original server. (we transfer roles to a virtual server to run the domain whilst rebuilding). The printing is causing a few problems though, as we share a couple of printers that are attached to the site's PCs, and add them to the temp server on local ports - e.g. \\pc-name\sharename. However, the site's PCs are still on their original domain and whenever we try to print from our software on the temp server (on it's own TEMP domain), it won't let us. We have had some limited success in authenticating to the PC sharing the printer by a 'net use \\pc-name\IPC$ /user:administrator <password>' command, but this seems rather flaky and if the host PC gets rebooted, it falls over. We don't want to setup a trust, as we would need another site visit to remove it after (the temp server stays on site for a few weeks after, and is usually sent back to our HQ by the site). Surely there must be a simple way to do this and get the shared printers to work without all this hassle ? Many thanks !
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