Deploy LPDSVC

Yes,the XP installation source is required to add this component.
Can anyone help me with the script , in case the i386 folder is not located
in the client machine.

thanks

"Klaus Jorgensen" wrote:

> AL explained on 08-01-2009 :

> > i need to deploy the Windows Component Print Services for Unix, LPDSVC to
> > 300 computers of my company .
> > Can this be done through Active Directory and how ?

>
> You can use the sysocmgr.exe program to add/remove Windows components:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222444
>
> Can't tell if the XP installation source (CD or a server share) is
> required to add the LPDSVC component.
>
> I'd put the command in a startup script for the computers in question,
> and perhaps add a reporting feature to tell which computers have
> actually added the component.
>
> You are aware that the LPDSVC component is required only if you need to
> receive print jobs. Sending LPR print jobs is a standard feature in XP.
>
> --
> /klaus
>
>
>

AL wrote on 09-01-2009 :

> Yes,the XP installation source is required to add this component.
> Can anyone help me with the script , in case the i386 folder is not located
> in the client machine.

Try the script between the dashed lines.
The value "new_src" must be changed to match your setup of the Windows
distribution share.
Also, depending on your setup, the value "src_key_val" could be
"SourcePath" instead of "ServicePackSourcePath". On my home computer
installed from a CD with SP3 slipstreamed, it only works with the
latter one.
The "rep_path" points to a network share where a text file based on the
computername is created with the LPDSVC status.

--------------------------------------------------------------------
@set new_src=\\fileserver\SWINST$\Windows\XPSP3
@set src_key_val=ServicePackSourcePath
@ser rep_path=\\fileserver\SWINST$\InstStat\LPDSVC

@set src_key="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVe rsion\Setup"
@for /f "tokens=2* skip=3" %%i in ('reg query %src_key% /v
%src_key_val%') do set old_src=%%j
@set inf_file="%TEMP%\lpdsvc.txt"

@reg add %src_key% /f /v %src_key_val% /d %new_src%

@echo [NetOptionalComponents] >%inf_file%
@echo LPDSVC = 1 >>%inf_file%
@sysocmgr.exe /i:%SYSTEMROOT%\inf\sysoc.inf /u:%inf_file%


@del %inf_file%
@reg add %src_key% /f /v %src_key_val% /d %old_src%

@sc query lpdsvc >%rep_path%\%computername%.txt
--------------------------------------------------------------------

--
/klaus

I will try your script.
Thanks.

"AL" wrote:

> Hello,
> i need to deploy the Windows Component Print Services for Unix, LPDSVC to
> 300 computers of my company .
> Can this be done through Active Directory and how ?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.