clone the server using printmig.exe. Not sure how to do the DNS entry
stuff.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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> OK, I just can't figure out the best way to do this.
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> We have our Data Center 20 miles from HQ, and we usually have failover
> servers at HQ. I have a W2K print server that has about 50 print spoolers
> on it. I want to have a solution so that if we lose connectivity with our
> Data Center that the NLB will fail over and it will be transparent to our
> users. I wanted to do a traditional cluster but that required shared
> storage, so use of two locations was out. I would really like to clone
the
> current machine (so all the share names are exactly the same) and set up
NLB
> in which a single DNS entry would point to a machine which will do the
load
> balancing.
>
> I know clustering is not an option due to the need to share storage, (the
> print spooler files need to be in the System32 folder) Is NLB the way to
go,
> or is there another way?
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