Transcript Adding a Print Share

Adding a Print Share

After you
have added
the print
spooler
resource,
you add the
printer port
information
to the
virtual
server.

Adding a print share to a virtual server is the same
process as adding a print share to a remote
physical server. Each node also needs to have the
appropriate drivers installed.
 After you have installed the drivers on both nodes,
browse the network resources of the virtual server
containing the print queue resource. Double-click
the Printers icon and double-click the Add Printer
icon to start the Add Printer Wizard. The wizard will
give you the option to create a port to redirect print
jobs to a network print device. You will need to
provide a driver and then a share name for the
printer. Each printer share must be unique in every
virtual server and on every node in the cluster. You
will also have the option to add this printer share to
Active Directory.

Note: You cannot use all of the printer
ports in a server cluster. You can use
LprMon and Standard Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) Port, both provided with
Windows 2000, in a server cluster. You
cannot use local ports in a cluster
because they do not provide failover
capability.
Port Configuration Stored in Cluster
Registry

It is not necessary to create locally
defined printers on each node in the
cluster. The port configuration is stored
in the cluster registry and therefore
replicated to the other node of the
cluster.
Lab B: Creating a Print
Share

In this lab, you will add printer drivers
and create a cluster print share.
Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able
to:
 Add a print driver on each node of the
cluster.
 Add a print spooler resource to the
cluster.
 Add a printer to the cluster.
 Verify that clustered print share will fail
over and print.
 Test the failover of a paused printer.
Scenario

In this exercise, you have been asked to
create a reliable printer share on the cluster
with failover capability.
 The following exercises will refer to your
computers as Node A and Node B. Both
nodes will install the printer drivers. Node A
will install the spooler resource. Node B will
add the printer. Node A will failover the
spooler resource to Node B. Node B will test
the failover of a paused printer.