Managing Printers Using IIS6 on a Clustered Print Server.

[Duncan Halsey]

Folks

We are configuring a 2 node Print Cluster using MS Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with the shared storage residing on an HP/Compaq HSG80 SAN.

The printers have all been configured and are working correctly.

Using a non-clustered system on Windows 2000 print server we were able to use IIS5 (HTTP://localhost/printers) to manage local printers.

Windows Server 2003 provides the same IIS solution for single server implementations but it does not operate in the same way for a clustered resource, as IIS does not run as standard under Windows 2003 in this type of cluster (MS recommend using NLB instead). We installed IIS onto the cluster as a generic service and configured it to present the printers HTTP site.

However, while it does display the printers correctly, it doesn't allow you to manage them.

So, the question is this: How do I get IIS6 to present the site HTTP://ClusterName/Printers and have it operate correctly on a Windows Server 2003 Printer Cluster.

Cheers

Duncan Halsey

[Ganesh Babu]

check this out..

http://www.networknewz.com/networknewz-10-20031117IntroductiontoIIS60onWindowsServer2003.html

there is a paragraph in this article which says

"Web Server Edition does not have support for Printer and fax sharing and it does not support IR devices. Also there is not file or print server for Macintosh systems under this version."

is your's web server edition???

Ganesh

[Duncan Halsey]

Ganesh,

Thanks the version we are using is:

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

cheers
Duncan

[Thomas Bianco]

IPP is not supported for clustered Printing spoolers.

sorry.

[Duncan Halsey]

Thomas,

Is there any documentation that says IPP is not supported on a MSCS

Thanks

Duncan

[Thomas Bianco]

I can find no documentation that openly states IPP is unsupported on Clusters; however, I can find no documentation professing its functionality, either.

My comment is based on an informal conversation I had with a Microsoft cluster engineer during an attempt to correct an unrelated problem with DFS on MSCS.