Install File and Printer Sharing

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Peter

Hi,

I'm looking for the command to install File and Printer Sharing on Windows
2000 Pro.
TIA,

Peter
 
Peter said:
I'm looking for the command to install File and Printer Sharing on Windows
2000 Pro.
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Unless I've misunderstood you, it's already installed (are you thinking of
Windows 9x/ME?).

Maybe you should explain what you WOULD be able to do after running such a
command, that you can't do currently (if that makes sense).
 
Peter said:
In our office, we have 2000 Windows 2000 Professional workstations. These
workstations were installed using a customized Unattended Install (UI),
without File and Printer Sharing. Now we want to add FPS using the command
line. Our users can't add FPS because they login as Restricted User, and we
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Here's one by Torgeir Bakken:-

Subject: Re: How can I install File and Printer Sharing using command line?
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh
Date: 2002-02-18 04:20:53 PST
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
 
Ritchie said:
Just tried it on a Win2000 Pro box - I manually uninstalled the F&P service,
rebooted.

Then to reinstall, you must include the name and path of the relevant
INF file, therefore the actual commandline needs to be:-

snetcfg -l "%systemroot%\inf\netserv.inf" -c s -i MS_Server
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Hi

What OS service pack do you have on this computer?

My testing indicates that with SP2 and better, you don't need to include the path to the netserv.inf file (but of course
the safest would be to do it anyway of course)...
 
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