Asked By ABC Webmaster
11-Mar-10 10:01 AM

I have the following code which I use to query published printers in
AD on our domain (2003). We have now setup a 2 way trust with another
domain (2008) which I can browse to with no problems. The problem
occurs when I try and run this script with the remote domain in the
LDAP query returns "Provider: A referral was returned from the
server."
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.CommandText = "SELECT printerName, serverName FROM 'LDAP://
DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM' WHERE objectClass='printQueue'"
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
objCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
objRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
Wscript.Echo "Printer Name: " &
objRecordSet.Fields("printerName").Value
Wscript.Echo "Server Name: " &
objRecordSet.Fields("serverName").Value
objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop
I have also tried it like this using WMI but that just hangs ....
strComputer = "printserver"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" &
Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("SELECT * FROM
Win32_Printer")
For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters
Wscript.Echo "\\" & strComputer & "\" & objPrinter.name
Next
Has anyone managed to query a remote print server to get this info?