Moving print queues

We are preparing to move from queue based printing to iPrint and are
experiencing the following problem with Windows XP locked-down workstations.
We created the queue directory on the iprint server, gave the ou rights to
the queues directory, changed the appropriate attributes to point the queue
to the new server and volume, and under qms management, had the iprint
printer service the queue. If you add the printer (queue based), it works
fine. If you log into the workstation as admin, it works fine. If you log
in as the "normal locked-down user" it doesn't. What we did find is that
there are two keys in
HKEY_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Novell\Print\NDSConnec tions, under the tree and
queue. The first queue key is the short name and has the correct settings.
The second key is fully qualified and is retaining the old setting
(server/volume). If we manually change the key and reboot it works.
How do we change the second key without having to manually change it?
Don't say ZENworks as the queues will be different for every user.
Thanks,
Mark

Hi Mark,
What iprint client version ?
Try the latest version 4.12
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/se...i?10099419.htm
If this doesn't help, repost your question in the iprint forum. Some iprint
developers hang out there, that provide good support.
Peter vd Woude
Novell Support Forums SysOp
> We are preparing to move from queue based printing to iPrint and are
> experiencing the following problem with Windows XP locked-down
> workstations.
>
> We created the queue directory on the iprint server, gave the ou rights to
> the queues directory, changed the appropriate attributes to point the
> queue
> to the new server and volume, and under qms management, had the iprint
> printer service the queue. If you add the printer (queue based), it works
> fine. If you log into the workstation as admin, it works fine. If you
> log
> in as the "normal locked-down user" it doesn't. What we did find is that
> there are two keys in
> HKEY_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Novell\Print\NDSConnec tions, under the tree
> and
> queue. The first queue key is the short name and has the correct
> settings.
> The second key is fully qualified and is retaining the old setting
> (server/volume). If we manually change the key and reboot it works.
>
> How do we change the second key without having to manually change it?
> Don't say ZENworks as the queues will be different for every user.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

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Cannot migrate users print queues to new print server

I am needing to move the print queues on users computers to a new print server that I have set up by I am not able to do so. I have over 200 users at the office. I am thinking it is a problem getting to run it on the clients, but not sure where it is failing...
To start... I have moved the print queues from Server 2003 to Server 2008 R2. The machines are both 64 bit. I was able to export the drivers and the print queues to the new server using the print migrate tool. The names of the printers are the same on both...
The names of the print servers are different. I added a print queue to a test client and was able to print to it without a problem mapped to the new server, so that's not the problem.
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I really need to get this resolved as the server is being decommissioned within the month.
Option Explicit
Dim from_sv, to_sv, PrinterPath, PrinterName, DefaultPrinterName, DefaultPrinter
Dim DefaultPrinterServer, SetDefault, key
Dim spoint, Loop_Counter, scomma
Dim WshNet, WshShell
Dim WS_Printers
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spoint = 0
scomma = 0
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to_sv = "\\srvprint_2" 'This should be the name of your new server.
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On Error Resume Next
key = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device"
DefaultPrinter = LCase(WshShell.RegRead (key))
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else
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spoint = instr(3,DefaultPrinter,"\")+1
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For Loop_Counter = 0 To WS_Printers.Count - 1 Step 2
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Next
Set WS_Printers = Nothing
Set WshNet = Nothing
Set WshShell = Nothing

Hi,
àI added a print
queue to a test client and was able to print to it without a problem mapped to the new server, so that's not the problem.
àWhat I can't
do is use the script (see below) to remap the clients to the new server.
Based on your description, I understand that you have moved print queues to new print server via print migrate
tool successfully. However, when use this script (Remap Printer Connections) to re-map Printer Connections, the script seems to not be ran as expected. Meanwhile,
I noticed that you had ran the script locally. Did you find any error when ran this script?
On current situation, this issue seems to be more related to this Remap Printer Connections script. I suggest
that you would post it in
Official Scripting Guys Forum. I believe we will get a better assistance there.
If anything I misunderstand or any update, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

Other users Print Queues

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I recently found my printer wasnt responding so when i went into settings i found was paused, not sure how but there were a few jobs in the print queue when i looked. I cleared the jobs and unpaused the printer but it started to print the jobs started by another user. I had to access their account to clear they're jobs and stop the printer wanting to print.
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Hi,
àI added a print
queue to a test client and was able to print to it without a problem mapped to the new server, so that's not the problem.
àWhat I can't
do is use the script (see below) to remap the clients to the new server.
Based on your description, I understand that you have moved print queues to new print server via print migrate
tool successfully. However, when use this script (Remap Printer Connections) to re-map Printer Connections, the script seems to not be ran as expected. Meanwhile,
I noticed that you had ran the script locally. Did you find any error when ran this script?
On current situation, this issue seems to be more related to this Remap Printer Connections script. I suggest
that you would post it in
Official Scripting Guys Forum. I believe we will get a better assistance there.
If anything I misunderstand or any update, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Best regards,
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Have been using Intel iMac 10.4.8 now upgraded to 10.4.10. Two printers attached: 1 via USB and a 2nd via USB/Bonjour on Airport Express. Both working flawlessly. 2 days ago, an ADSL Internet outage occurred. When this was reestablished an hour or so later, everything was back to normal, EXCEPT that the USB/Bonjour/Airport printer no longer works. When jobs are sent to it, the printer queue stops and a red "!" appears in the dock on the queue. Restarting the queue just brings back the red "!" again.
Have done all the usual things:
1. Checked cables, restarted iMac, restarted printer, reset Airport.
2. Have confirmed the printer works find if moved to a direct USB port. So the problem is not the printer.
3. Have upgraded the Airport firmware to 6.3. Works just fine as a network access point. So the problem is not the Airport itself.
4. Have deleted, added the printer, renamed the printer - none of these things helped (this was suggested by some postings on the forum)
5. Have tried every combination of which item is powered up first (this was suggested by some postings on this forum)
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tomfromflagstaff wrote:
Yes, I assume that the CUPS job is what caused my difficulty.
And they are gone.
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https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/9b07ec17-a3ae-427d-a417-c95f05fc515f
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When the VB program spools crystal report files to print queue, the print queue only shows "Crystal Report" for each document. How to keep the original file name? In the past when we were using Crystal Report 11, the original file name can be shown in the print queue.
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Thanks

Hello,
Set the PrintOption.JobTitle value for the print job. Here's C# code on how to:
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Print Queue wont open in Snow Leopard

After upgrading I finally got my Epson 3800 to work but although I can open the utilities button I can't open the print queue.
Tried resetting, downloading new driver and repair to preferences but nothing.
The printer does not show up in the dock.
It prints ok though
Any ideas

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I agree with Barry first drag the old Epson icon from 10.5 off the Dock, then go to System Preferences > Print & Fax and open Print Queue. Then once you have a new Epson icon on the Dock, right click (control click) on it then select Options > Keep in Dock.
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By the way, here's what it printed:

Display Report Title line in Printer Queue Again

Post Author: ShowMeTheName
CA Forum: General
Hello, this is my question:
How can I get our Crystal Reports XI printed from our VB application to show again the line u201CCrystal Reports + The Report Titleu201D in the printer queue?
We first started generating reports with Visual Studio 2003 and Crystal Reports for VB.Net. Months later, we upgraded to Crystal Reports XI Developers Edition.
When we built our application in VB and CR for VB.Net (v.9?) and printed reports from it, they showed the Crystal Reports line with the report title in the printer spooler. Now that we upgraded to CR XI DE and compiled our program, the reports only show the line u2018Documentu2019 in the printer spooler. The report title is gone.
Does anyone know how to get that report title back? If we open a report in the Crystal Reports program and we print it from there, we do get that line u201CCrystal Reports u201C and the Report Title in the printer spooler. However, when we print the same reports from our VB application (and whatever upgrades installed by CR XI), the report title is replaced by a very annoying u2018documentu2019 word.
We need the report title to show in the printer queue to distinguish our reports.
In our VB app, we open the reports as a new ReportDocument and then we print them with the PrintToPrinter code.
Has anyone else had the same problem? Do you guys think that if we replaced the new report references with the original version will do the trick?
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Post Author: emoreau
CA Forum: General
as per http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/cs/forums/3054/ShowThread.aspx, it doesn't seem to be possible.

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Morning Alexander Carr,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Use this article to troubleshoot printer issues in OS X.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
Troubleshooting printer issues in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3147
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My setup: iMac hardline to Canon i960 printer. Issue: endless printing of the same document. The printer window states that the pinter is in use and there is nothing listed in the Print Queue. How can I stop printing the document?

My setup: iMac hardline to Canon i960 printer. Issue: endless printing of the same document. The printer window states that the pinter is in use and there is nothing listed in the Print Queue. How can I stop printing the document?

Soution: Delete the printer and add the same printer back in, therefore creating a new print queue.

Printing w/Leopard & AD-based Windows Print Queues:

For those interested, I have written an overview of printing in Leopard 10.5.0 to Windows print servers (published queues Active Directory). Your mileage may vary. This document contains the good the bad and the ugly.
Objective:
Get Leopard based Macs to print to AD published SMB print queues hosted on Windows 2003 print servers. Sounds easy, huh?
Overview:
Print Servers:
Windows 2003 print servers.
Printers:
All the printers in my test were all new HP network b/w printers or network MFP b/w printers. All of them were less than 2 years old. None of them were consumer-grade home USB printers.
Mac Clients:
My test clients were Intel MacBook Pros and Intel iMacs running 10.5.0 Leopard. All of them had user AD accounts and all Macs were bound to AD using Directory Utility (or dsconfigad)
The AD clients have a unique naming convention at my company. In my environment we use the initials of the person for their login name (SAM). Example:
Real “human” Name: “Stephen Paul Jobs”
Long Active Directory Name: “Steve Jobs”
Short Active Directory Name: “spj”
“Legacy” NT Names: “domain\spj”
Full domain name (used for email etc): “[email protected]”
(you get the idea...)
Note: My Mac clients are not in an Open Directory domain. No “Magic Triangle” in this environment. Pure AD for the sake of this example. I am not managing the Mac clients via MCX in this scenario.
Print Protocols:
All the print queues hosted on the print servers were standard SMB/CIFS print queues. The syntax (UNC) looks like this:
smb://print_server.domain/queue
(This syntax is invisible to most users printing to AD-published printers (or any network based printer really) . Most users will have no idea what protocols are being used.)
Procedures:
Part 1: Set up a new printer from an existing AD-published print queue:
From the Apple menu select “System Preferences...” (or launch it from /Applications). The Printer Setup Utility app no longer exists. Apple has discontinued it fro various reasons.
Click on the Printer & Fax pane.
Click the “+” button on the left. This will launch the Apple Printer Browser (called “AddPrinter”, and lives in /System/Library/CoreServices), which looks similar to the previous browser in Tiger. The Printer Browser by default will usually show network printers vai Directory Services (AD/OD etc) as well as Bonjour printers and Mac OS X based shared printers – if they are shared via IPP and LPR under certain circumstances).
Select the desired AD-published print queue you want to print to by highlighting it in the browser list and clicking the “Add” button. (Note: Print queues published via Active Directory will show up as “Open Directory” printers, even though this is not 100% technically correct.)
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A The new print queue will now be displayed in the Print & Fax system pref pane (but not always – see below).
B You will see a printer proxy application in ~/Library/Printers/ which corresponds to your new print queue. This is the print monitor app that will show up in your Dock when you print to the queue.
C You can see the new print queue via the CUPS admin page at http://localhost:631/printers.
D You can see your new print queue from the Terminal by typing this command: “lpstat –v” (type “man lpstat” for more info on the lpstat and related commands)
E You can also see your printers by launching an print-enabled application such as TextEdit or Safari and printing a page. You will be presented with Leopard’s new print dialog box (which now includes a print preview pane). From the “Printer” drop-down menu you can see all of your printers. You can add a printer from here too (which takes you to the steps listed above)
(of course, most end users will only use option A listed above. The other options are more abstract and complicated)
Now that the AD print queue has been setup on your Mac, you can print to it (maybe).
Part 2: Printing to an AD-published print queue:
Open a document you want to print.
Choose “Page Setup...” from the File menu if you need to configure the job. (Optional)
Choose “Print” from the File menu.
From the Print dialog box, choose the desired print queue from the Printer menu
Click the Print button.
You will need to authenticate with a valid Active Directory username and password. You don’t have to have administrator credentials, but you have to verify that you are a domain member. In my environment, my Windows print server doesn't require authentication, but for some reason Leopard or CUPS makes you authenticate. (See below). Not only is this a major PIA, but the authentication dialog box itself is formatted to include the wrong credentials format for authentication in the first place.
Volia! Done. Easy huh? Not really. Read on for the ugly stuff.
My Complaints and Caveats:
OK, so here’s where I vent, complain and scratch my head. Join in on the fun.
Sometimes shared print queues don’t show up in the Print & Fax system preference pane after they have been added. I have no idea why. The local CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631) on my Mac test clients can see the connected queues, and the queues show up in ~/Library/Printers. The “lpstat –v” command shows the connect queues too. But for some reason, sometimes network print queues that I have previously setup (and use regularly) don’t show up in the Leopard Print & Fax preference pane. Local USB printers always show up fine for me.
2. When challenged to authenticate a print job to a Windows print server (AD), the Mac’s authentication dialog box pre-populates the AD user’s name in the “Name” field incorrectly. Example:
A user named “Joe Is Cool” (short name “JIC”) prints a job to the print server. The print auth dialog box challenges him for a name and password. It is pre-populated already with the name of “Cool, Joe”. When a valid AD password is entered, the job is rejected (it fails authentication and gets put on hold – which is hard to see this unless you explicitly look at the Printer.app proxy tool in the Dock). However, if the user replaces “Cool, Joe” with his official AD short name of “JIC” and then enters his AD password, the print job is accepted and printed. I wish Apple didn’t try and pre-populate the dialog box! Can this be avoided or prevented?
In my environment, my Windows print server doesn't even require authentication, but for some reason Leopard or CUPS makes you authenticate. I’m working with my Windows administrators to figure this out. It will only accept user names with the short name format. It will not accept long (full) names or NT legacy names.
3) The Printer Setup Utility app, which used to live in /Applications/Utilities, no longer exists. Apple has discontinued it for various reasons. Mainly security and simplicity. I wish it was still available, but the system pref pane works fine (well, usually)
4) Active Directory-based print queues will show up in the OS X Printer Browser as “Open Directory” printers, even though this is not 100% technically correct. Why can’t OS X tell the difference between OD queues and AD queues and label them as such?
5) Leopard has locked down the ability to add network printers. You now must be a local administrator in 10.5 or later. I understand the importance of this security measure in certain environments, but why can’t there be an option in the Security preference pane to “Allow non-admins to add printers”? This would make me very happy.
6) Setting the default printer and resetting the CUPS system now require you to right-click in the left side of the Print & Fax pane. There no longer is a button or menu option to do this.
7) Sometimes after a job has printed the printer proxy app (from ~/Library/Printers) stays in the Dock and won’t go away.
Conclusion
Please chime in on your experiences, bugs, opinions and comments.
Message was edited by: Daniel Stranathan

I have noticed several of the changes in our system when printing to an AD printer from a Leopard client. I have one issue that is pretty odd and I'm not sure what is going on. When printing an Excel worksheet, I get prompted for AD credentials. After submitting the job, the print queue says "Waiting for Authentication", I have to press the Resume button and then the authentication dialog pops up. I successfully authenticate (My auth dialog is populated correctly and the remember to keychain option is selected) and the job prints fine. If I print the same document again (without closing the worksheet or Excel), or any other worksheet, I still have to reauth. I can print just fine to the same printer from Textwriter and I do not need to authenticate. Weird...

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