New ways

New ways of doing the same old things is sometimes hard to get a handle on.  Sharing out printers in the 2k8 era is like that.  Since the server is 64bit, when you attach a 32 bit workstation, the native driver isn't 32bit but 64 bit. 

One of the ways you can deploy printers is a utility called pushprinters.exe.  But there's a problem where the 32bit version isn't on the box.  You can either build the 32bit version of Pushprinters.exe or grab it from the link talked about here http://www.activedir.org/ListArchives/tabid/55/forumid/1/postid/32125/view/topic/Default.aspx

Like Philip said put it on a usb flash drive -- http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/11/x86-pushprinterconnectionsexe-must-for.html

Chad has some posts about things that are different as well... http://msmvps.com/blogs/cgross/archive/2008/12/16/the-death-of-ifmember.aspx and http://msmvps.com/blogs/cgross/archive/2008/12/16/installing-group-policy-preferences-client-side-extensions.aspx

 

Read the complete post at http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/12/31/new-ways.aspx

Published Wed, Dec 31 2008 14:32 by THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
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