Yeah the Citrix printing will be the easy part like you said, it is more the 700 client computers that I am concerned about that don't use Citrix. But as of now I am trying to decide one thing: Do I do it like I described by renaming the new print server to the old print server name, let's call that the easy way. Or do I use more of a longer phased approach, the hard way, and have my helpdesk staff simply delete users printers from the old server and readd off of the new server as the calls come in for other problems over the next couple of months? Which method would all of you guys go with? TFTH, /jL -----Original Message----- From: Pavlo Ignatusha [mailto:pignatusha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:55 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: print server question I faced similar problem a few month ago with less number of printers. I ended up importing the new printserver in the farm, move the printer-assigning groups from printers on old printserver to a new printserver (in CMC) and deleting old printserver from the farm. This should work well for your Citrix printing (if you assign network printers through AD goup membership). The driver issue I can see is this: if you have workstation with old NT driver on and you have an app printing to it then the document is first spooled by your local NT driver and then is passed to the new W3K printserver with W3K driver for the final spool before hitting the actual physical printer. Here you can possibly run into formatting problems and bunch of similar issues much like to these of printer driver mappings you do in Citrix when you map client's local printer to a different driver on citrix. Thanks, Pavlo Ignatusha Systems and Network Coordinator Pembroke General Hospital Tel. (613) 732-3675 ext.6150 Fax. (613) 732-9986 www.pemgenhos.org "All that matters is love and work" - Sigmund Freud. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Luchette, Jon Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:57 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] print server question Hello, this isn't really a Citrix specific question but hey what the hell, it's Friday... We have an NT 4.0 print server with about 180 printers setup on HP JetDirect ports on it for our network. I have just recently built a new Win 2k3 print server on a separate piece of hardware and set it up on the network with a different name. I then created all of the same ports and printers as TCP/IP ports on the new server from scratch. All ports map to the same IP addresses and all printer names are identical on the two servers. At this point nobody has installed any printers from the new print server. Here is my question: if I just take the NT 4.0 print server off of the network, rename the new Win2k3 print server to the name of the NT 4.0 print server and reboot the server; will everyone that has network printers setup from the old NT 4.0 print server have to reinstall their printer in order to print or will they not have to and just be able to print immediately? Has anyone ever done something like this before? Thanks for your help, /jL