Creating printer ports and shared printers in a clustered environment

There are two steps to this process:

1. Define printer ports on each node of the cluster.
2. Create shared printers on each node of the cluster.

Define printer ports:

NOTE: Printer ports should be defined on each node of the cluster. If you have a range of printers, you may want to manually split the range between the two virtual nodes.

Step1: Use IP.bat to Create portmaker batch file.

Rename IP.txt to Portmaker.bat. This file will be used to create ports on PRINT_NODE1 node of the cluster.

Perform the same process for PRINT_NODE2. Modify IP.bat to reflect the new range of printer ports and PRINT_NODE:

FOR /L %%I IN (128,1,254) DO CALL :TEST %%I

Listing for IP.bat
FOR /L %%I IN (0,1,127) DO CALL :TEST %%I

:TEST
ECHO CALL PORT.BAT 192.168.0.%1 >>IP.TXT
ECHO CALL PORTCREATE.BAT PRINT_NODE1>>IP.TXT.

PORTMAKER.BAT Sample output

CALL PORT.BAT 192.168.0.0
CALL PORTCREATE.BAT PRINT_NODE1
CALL PORT.BAT 192.168.0.1
CALL PORTCREATE.BAT PRINT_NODE1

Port.bat creates the port.ini file that Portcreate.bat uses to apply the registry changes using the Regini Resource Kit utility. Note the GUID. Each virtual server stores its resources under a different GUID. You will need to verify this manually using REGEDT32.

Listing for Port.bat

echo >port.ini RegistryMachineClusterResources222eca55-e86a-4b3f-9091- c47d6f7ac5e6ParametersMonitorsStandard TCP/IP PortPortsIP_%1
echo >>port.ini HostName = REG_SZ
echo >>port.ini HWAddress = REG_SZ
echo >>port.ini IPAddress = %1
echo >>port.ini PortNumber = REG_DWORD 9100
echo >>port.ini Protocol = REG_DWORD 1
echo >>port.ini SNMP Community = REG_SZ "public"
echo >>port.ini SNMP Enabled = REG_DWORD 1
echo >>port.ini SNMP Index = REG_DWORD 1
echo >>port.ini Version = REG_DWORD 1

Listing for Portcreate.bat

regini -m \%1 port.ini

Creating print shares:

Use the following two batch files to mass-create shared printers. Sample listing of PRINTCREATE.BAT:

CALL DRIVER.BAT 8N7 PRINT_NODE1 192.168.0.1 Xerox Docuprint N32

Listing of Driver.bat

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "%1" /c \%2 /f %windir% infntprint.inf /r "IP_%3" /m "Xerox Docuprint N32" /h "Intel" /v "Windows NT 4.0 or 2000" /u /Z

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xs /c \%2 /n "\%2%1" comment "%4 %5 %6"

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xs /c \%2 /n "\%2%1" location "%1"

NOTE: If the driver does not exist on the second node, you can run the following command on the second node to install the driver:

rundll32 printui.dll , PrintUIEntry /id

You may need to stop and start the cluster service on each node to refresh the print queue information held in Active Directory.

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