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[henrywood]

Hi guys !

I would like to use the devcon tool by M$ to automatically install a

1. Local printer
2. Network printer
3. A Videodriver

via an INF
According to the devcon help the syntax is:

devcon [-r] install <inf> <hwid>
Manually installs a device.
This command will only work for local machine.
Specify -r to reboot automatically if needed.
<inf> is an INF to use to install the device.
<hwid> is a hardware ID to apply to the device.

Now my question is: How do I specify the hwid ? Is it in somewhere in the .INF file ?

Also, how to I tell devcon to map a certain local port to a remote network printer.

And last, what is the HWID to use in case of a videodriver ?


Henrik

[DaveR]

[henrywood]

Thanks Dave !

So I guess the conclusion is that you have to know the HWID from the INF file to install that particular driver / device

Also, to answer my own question regarding mapping a local port to a network printer, I discovered that one can use

runh net use lpt2: \\printerserver\share,wait


Thanks for your help


Henrik

[vdsalchemist]

Henrik,
Just to let you know there is a AddPrinterConnection method which is part of the Win32_Printer WMI class that should do the same. I have a demo at my forum that shows some of the abilities of the Win32_Printer WMI class. There is also a Win32_PrinterDriver WMI class that has a AddPrinterDriver method. Using WMI would allow you to connect to the machines remotely and install/configure the Printers without having to goto every machine or installing additional software on each machine.

[henrywood]

dragonsphere,

I will look into this as well

thx


Henrik