RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI

[Eric Fleischman]

Big assumption. You’re assuming that printers elect to publish to AD. If they don’t, for any reason, you won’t find them. So it depends upon the reason you’re looking.   > Doesnt AD store any info about network scanners , just like printers....????   AD doesn’t store info about printers so much as the printer people decided to publish stuff to AD. There’s a major difference. It is up to the printer people to publish to AD. The AD people are not going out and finding printers. The scanner people did no such publishing, because they did not see value for their component. And they are right, for them, there really isn’t.   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manbinder Pal Singh Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI   Thanks for the info. The thing is that I dont know how many scanners are there in my domain and so I dont know the machines on which they are configured.   My scenario is like this. Think I want info about all printers. AD stores info about all the network printers and so by querying AD I should be able to know how many printers are there and basic detail abour each printer that on which machine it is installed. Once I know the machines , I can query them to get further details.   Doesnt AD store any info about network scanners , just like printers....????   Thank You Manbinder From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 9:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI So this data would not be available in AD. You’d need to call down to each machine and find it. So really, this DL probably isn’t best for this question.   WMI can probably answer this question better than most other APIs (at least easier) but it will require a call out to each box, unless you start pushing this data in to some central repository.   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manbinder Pal Singh Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:44 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI   I am sorry for not being clear. I meant scanners that scan photos. Also I am interetesed in then knowing the attributes like if scanner is colored or not?   Thank You Manbinder   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:17 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI Scanners? Like scanners that scan your photos? Or like network sniffers (which some people call scanners)?   Or something else? Can you clarify Manbinder?   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manbinder Pal Singh Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 2:17 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI   Hi all   I want to know how to know how many scanners are there in the domain and their properties using ADSI/WMI. Any help would be apprecaited.   Thank You Manbinder