Windows Printer Report

Urgh. This is ugly, but I needed this for work.

Imagine the following chain of information for a Windows print server:

-> -> ->

Now, deconfiguring a print server and moving its printers to another one I wanted to know which printer share has which IP-address to see, if that share’s already on the other print server.

It seems, that Windows itself cannot create this report, so I googled and found this nice post by Don Hite:

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/dhite/archive/2007/12/16/hta-script-to-list-printer-shares-on-a-print-server.aspx

To be clear: I have never actively heard of hta before this post and it’s basically a big pile of shit, but this little thing worked out of the box, but lacked the port information. I googled around Microsoft’s WMI implementation and finally found the way to get the port name (which was simple) and the corresponding IP address (which was not). I’ve modified Don’s script to include this.

To say this even clearer than for my other scripts: This comes with absolute no warranty. I have no clue about WMI programming or hta, so this could probably break things. In my case, it worked quite well. Copy this script into a .hta-file and doubleclick.

So here goes: