To be fair, much the same rationale is available by most if not all directories - including NDS. Out of the box, Active Directory doesn't easily facilitate this, you have to actively (pun intended ;-)) do something to make this work. Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Reese > Sent: 06 May 2004 19:14 > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: printer management > > Microsoft has a tool to do just this. It is called "Active Directory" > > Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Fowler > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:23 PM > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] printer management > > We have 300 network printers and 3 XPa Farm servers. We will > soon be migrating these printers to queues on Windows servers > from Novell. We want to try and keep the users from having to > scroll through a list of printers to get to the one(s) they > wish to print to. Does anyone know of a way to partition them > out? Do any of the 3rd party print management solutions help > with this? Do any of them handle security? Do any of them > propagate to other farm servers for you? > > Thanks for the insight. *********************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and are intended for the above named recipient only. If this has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. You must take no action based on this, nor must you copy or disclose it or any part of its contents to any person or organisation. Statements and opinions contained in this email may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communications may be monitored. The registered office of Littlewoods Limited and its subsidiaries is 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Registered number of Littlewoods Limited is 262152. ************************************************ ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm