If I look up a printer in Active Directory, is there any way to determine the server it is installed on? If I look up the printer in the Active Direcory console, the properties caption tells me the server, how can I determine this value programatically?
Edit: Language is C#
The serverName attribute or uncName attribute of the printQueue object in AD is likely what you want.
To build on the answer in the link alexn provided, here's a program I wrote that will print out the server information for every printer on a computer:
String server = String.Empty;
// For each printer installed on this computer
foreach (string printerName in PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters) {
// Build a query to find printers named [printerName]
string query = string.Format("SELECT * from Win32_Printer WHERE Name LIKE '%{0}'", printerName);
// Use the ManagementObjectSearcher class to find Win32_Printer's that meet the criteria we specified in [query]
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query);
ManagementObjectCollection coll = searcher.Get();
// For each printer (ManagementObject) found, iterate through all the properties
foreach (ManagementObject printer in coll) {
foreach (PropertyData property in printer.Properties) {
// Get the server (or IP address) from the PortName property of the printer
if (property.Name.Equals("PortName")) {
server = property.Value as String;
Console.WriteLine("Server for " + printerName + " is " + server);
}
}
}
}
All the other properties of the printer are available as PropertyData as well.
To find a shared printer, click Desktop, double-click Network, double-click the name of the computer to which the printer is attached, and then double-click the printer that you want to list in the Windows SBS Console.
