printmig failure

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Tom Cassidy

I'm trying to migrate about 150 printers from one Win2k
server to another but printmig keeps failing with the
following message sequence:

Restoring registry keys. This may take a few minutes ...
FAILURE: Can't restore to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Printmig.
..
..
..
Restore compromised - see pm.log

The registry key referenced in the message is present on
the target but is not set. The code seems to work OK if I
just backup and restore the target server but not from one
server to another... Anybody have any thoughts
 
Yes (I think). The source server has security set up on
the printers so they can be managed in groups thru IIS...
I assume that's what you were referring to as remote admin
access.

I could set up the same set of users and groups on the
target server but I was hoping that it wouldn't be
necessary.

Tom Cassidy
-----Original Message-----
Remote admin access?

I've not experienced the error previously.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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I'm trying to migrate about 150 printers from one Win2k
server to another but printmig keeps failing with the
following message sequence:

Restoring registry keys. This may take a few minutes ...
FAILURE: Can't restore to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Printmig.
.
.
.
Restore compromised - see pm.log

The registry key referenced in the message is present on
the target but is not set. The code seems to work OK if I
just backup and restore the target server but not from one
server to another... Anybody have any thoughts
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Printmig will not set up users and groups on the remote target. If you need
this capability you will need to add the groups.

Printmig uses the spooler functions to perform most of the work. When
running the tool remotely, you must be an administrator on the target
server.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Tom Cassidy said:
Yes (I think). The source server has security set up on
the printers so they can be managed in groups thru IIS...
I assume that's what you were referring to as remote admin
access.

I could set up the same set of users and groups on the
target server but I was hoping that it wouldn't be
necessary.

Tom Cassidy
-----Original Message-----
Remote admin access?

I've not experienced the error previously.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh; [ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I'm trying to migrate about 150 printers from one Win2k
server to another but printmig keeps failing with the
following message sequence:

Restoring registry keys. This may take a few minutes ...
FAILURE: Can't restore to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Printmig.
.
.
.
Restore compromised - see pm.log

The registry key referenced in the message is present on
the target but is not set. The code seems to work OK if I
just backup and restore the target server but not from one
server to another... Anybody have any thoughts
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OK, that helped... I found that you've got to specify an
administrative user ID in the target specifications even
for backup. In my case, my original backup/restore
command lines run on the target server were:

PRINTMIG -b C:\WINNT\system32\spool\pm\source.CAB \\source
PRINTMIG -s -p -r C:\WINNT\system32\spool\pm\source.CAB
\\target

This didn't work but when I added the admin user ID like
this:

PRINTMIG -b C:\WINNT\system32\spool\pm\source.CAB
\\source\myadminid
PRINTMIG -s -p -r C:\WINNT\system32\spool\pm\source.CAB
\\target

It worked.

Thanks for your help.
-----Original Message-----
Printmig will not set up users and groups on the remote target. If you need
this capability you will need to add the groups.

Printmig uses the spooler functions to perform most of the work. When
running the tool remotely, you must be an administrator on the target
server.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh; [ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Tom Cassidy said:
Yes (I think). The source server has security set up on
the printers so they can be managed in groups thru IIS...
I assume that's what you were referring to as remote admin
access.

I could set up the same set of users and groups on the
target server but I was hoping that it wouldn't be
necessary.

Tom Cassidy
-----Original Message-----
Remote admin access?

I've not experienced the error previously.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh; [ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
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I'm trying to migrate about 150 printers from one Win2k
server to another but printmig keeps failing with the
following message sequence:

Restoring registry keys. This may take a few minutes ...
FAILURE: Can't restore to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Printmig.
.
.
.
Restore compromised - see pm.log

The registry key referenced in the message is present on
the target but is not set. The code seems to work OK if I
just backup and restore the target server but not
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server to another... Anybody have any thoughts


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