Windows 2000 Print Redundancy

jsbarone · Guest

Hi,

I have a Windows 2000 Print Server that serves roughly 100 Printers, 24
hours a day at the hospital I work at. I noticed that there is
absolutely no redundancy associated with this print server, so in an
attempt to avoid certain disaster should said print server fail, I've
been researching into how to make it redundant.

I've come across a few solutions---the most attractive being making it
a print server cluster. I've done my digging, but can't seem to find a
comprehensive step by step guide to taking my single non-clustered
windows 2000 server box and making it a windows 2000 server box with
redundancy should it fail *without having to rebuild the box or take it
down for more than an hour or two.*

It would be very complicated for us, and a whole ton of work to go
through the process of rebuilding said print server, readding print
server printers and drivers, and then supporting all of our 1200 users
the next day when (undoubtedly) something would go wrong.

So, reiterating and summarizing this long winded post...

We need to take Windows 2000 Print Server A, make it a cluster with new
Windows 2000 Print Server B, without having to change anything drastic
or rebuild Print Server A, and also without taking Print Server A down
for a long period of time.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

J

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