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September 11, 2005
Using ADFind.exe freeware, I have scripted PubPrint.bat to return the shortServerName, printShareName, printerName, location, portName, serverName, driverName, and distinguishedName of the Active Directory published printers, using a semi-colon delimited format.
The syntax for using PubPrint.bat is:
PubPrint
PubPrint.bat contains:
@echo offsetlocalset qry=ADFIND -default -nodn -f "(objectClass=printQueue)" distinguishedName printerName printShareName portName driverName location shortServerName serverNamefor /f "Skip=3 Tokens=1* Delims=:" %%a in ('%qry%') do ( set p1=%%a set p2=%%b call :attr)endlocalgoto :EOF:attrset p1=%p1:~1,6%set p2=%p2:~1%if "%p1%" EQU "distin" set dn=%p2%&goto :EOFif "%p1%" EQU "locati" set loc=%p2%&goto :EOFif "%p1%" EQU "server" set sn=%p2%&goto :EOFif "%p1%" EQU "portNa" set port=%p2%&goto :EOFif "%p1%" EQU "driver" set drvr=%p2%&goto :EOFif "%p1%" EQU "printS" set shr=%p2%&goto :EOFif "%p1%" EQU "printe" set prtn=%p2%&goto :EOFif "%p1%" EQU "shortS" goto srvsngoto :EOF:srvsnset srvsn=%p2%@echo "%srvsn%";"%shr%";"%prtn%";"%loc%";"%port%";"%sn%";"%drvr%";"%dn%"set shr=set loc=set port=
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