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My colleague decided to rename all the printers on the print server so the names reflected where the printers were.
Nice idea but now people need to reconnect to the printers. Only problem is, when trying to emove the printer from your system, it says it can't remove it as the printer doesn't exist.
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: My colleague decided to rename all the printers on the print server so the names reflected where the printers were.
Nice idea but now people need to reconnect to the printers. Only problem is, when trying to emove the printer from your system, it says it can't remove it as the printer doesn't exist.
Any idea anyone?
Yes. Drop the printers onto said colleague's head from a great height, then get him/her to fix it.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: nope, it's been suggested that I might need to use regedit but i'm hoping to find an easier way to do it.
Remember though that if you do it once on one machine through Regedit you can then simply export the relevant registry hive(s) and distribute them to all users to be run which might make it the easiest solution in the long run if you've got a lot of users with the same problem.
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Have a look at this as well Ringo. Hopefully if it works you could distribute it to your users as an executable script. I've tried looking through my local drive and network drive to see where we store the list of printers that a user is connected to but I can't find anything anywhere, perhaps some kind of Regedit hack or the above script is the only way of doing it?
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Editting the registry has been the only way I've got round this problem when one of my technical superiors changes the names of printers on servers...
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actually I've discovered that if you just pull the network cable out of the PC, you can remove the printer without any problems...
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