Fault Tolerant Printing

I didn't pay http printing much attention because our internal systems require a good old print share to work correctly.

The only way I've found to provide a fault tolerant print share is to use cluster server.

We use a logon script (batch) that uses the con2prt binary from Microsoft. Each time a user logs in it will try to map to our primary print server. Failing that, it will map to the other server.

So if our primary goes down we just need to send an e-mail out informing them to log back into their workstations. They will then be connected to the backup.

Example:

\\DFS\directory\con2prt /f

\\DFS\directory\con2prt /cd "\\PRNTSRV1\BW-1"
IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 \\DFS\directory\con2prt /cd "\\PRINTSRV2\BW-1"

\\DFS\directory\con2prt /cd "\\PRNTSRV1\BW-2"
IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 \\DFS\directory\con2prt /cd "\\PRINTSRV2\BW-2"