rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry Question

[Douglas C. Horner]

I'l be honest, I can't imagine what kind of application would want to, " delete[] a bunch of printers and add[] new ones. .... don't care [on add if ] the printer was found.."

Except- maybe - some kind of printer-testing software?

Pray enlighten me?

We installed two new domains and moved the old domains to member servers. One of the old domains served as a print server as well. Since we will eventually be taking the old print server off the network we moved all of our printers to one of the other member servers. As part of the move we need to delete the printers on the local machines that point to the old print server and add them back in pointing to the new print server. I do this through a down and dirty PB app that executes one time at the time the user logs in.

[Michael Mattias]

I'l be honest, I can't imagine what kind of application would want to, " delete[] a bunch of printers and add[] new ones. .... don't care [on add if ] the printer was found.."

Except- maybe - some kind of printer-testing software?

Pray enlighten me?

[Douglas C. Horner]

Thank you Michael

I don't have a need for the API, hence it never crossed my mind to look.

Doug

[Michael Mattias]

????

DeletePrinter
The DeletePrinter function deletes the specified printer object.

BOOL DeletePrinter(
  HANDLE hPrinter   // handle to printer object
);

Parameters
hPrinter
[in/out] Handle to a printer object that will be deleted. Use the OpenPrinter or AddPrinter function to retrieve a printer handle.

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AddPrinter
The AddPrinter function adds a printer to the list of supported printers for a specified server.

HANDLE AddPrinter(
  LPTSTR *pName,     // server name
  DWORD Level,      // printer information level
  LPBYTE pPrinter   // printer information buffer
);

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[Douglas C. Horner]

I have a down and dirty app that deletes a bunch of printers and adds new ones. I don't care, at least at the point of adding, whether or not the printer was found or not so I am using the /q option to suppress errors. What I am finding is that if the printer can not be found it still throws the windows error saying it can not connect to the printer even though I am using the /q option. Does anyone know how I can suppress this message? Maybe that is the problem, Windows doesn't treat the can not connect to the printer as an actual error message? Is there another way I can add the printers?

Here is the simple line of code. All I do is add the printers line by line with a shell statement

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /q /n\\PrimaryDomain\ExpediteRed