Yes, but you can exclude machines which don't have printers attached. Don't know what your network is like but most of our machines don't have a local printer - they're networked from servers - so the standard browse list has loads of machines which don't have printers.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Duro Sent: 29 August 2006 15:51 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Printers & AD GUI good stuff, Steve, thanks. But isn't all this really a duplication of what the Browse List already does? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Rochford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 4:46 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Printers & AD GUI I'd guess it depends why you're wanting to manage a printer but if it's in response to someone reporting some kind of problem with their printer then you can just sit at your computer and type \\<computername> into explorer. You'll then see the "printers and faxes" folder - double click that and you'll have access to the printer(s)installed even if they're not shared. I don't think it's much more work than connecting through the AD GUI. If you don't know the name of the computers with printers then it wouldn't be too hard to use a WMI script to build a database of computers and their printers - this could then feed a web page listing them and you just click on the name to connect in the same way as typing the name above. If most of your machines are on all the time and there are not too many then the web page could even do a live query of each machine to get the printer details. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Duro Sent: 28 August 2006 16:11 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Printers & AD GUI I figured out where the disconnect is in this discussion. You see, I'm the sole IT of a small org, barely over the SBS size, and I have to do *everything*. I had overlooked the fact that those of you who are at the top of a large IT pyramid have to leave the management of printers to lower admins, techs, and even users. I can't do that. If an unshared printer needs management, I have to either drill through the browse list, or travel to the workstation and disrupt the user. It would be just great if the AD printer list could make printers shared but invisible (to all but the owner and Admin). Kinda like Exchange mailboxes, which can still be used and managed even when invisible. Maybe the aforementioned Printer Management Console offers something like that - I haven't checked it out yet. But surely this couldn't be an unreasonable wish. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
