Copy Printer Settings Windows 2000

[CindyK]

We want to be able to install the same printer twice, changing the tray settings so that one printer option takes you to manual feed; another to auto tray. In the past I've done this very easily - copying the printer icon in the printer folder and tweaking the settings, OR re-installing the same printer twice, giving it a name that defines the difference, and tweak the settings.

In Windows 2000 it's not letting me do either. At the workstation level it no longer lets the user control the name of the printer - doing a reinstall won't give me two printer options (it appears to just override the first one). I tried going to the server and installing a new printer with a different name there, but it did the same thing. Share names can be changed, but not the actual printer names.

Anyone know the solution to this one?

Thanks in advance.

Cindy

 

[CindyK]

I'm answering my own question here, in case someone else runs into this. While we can no longer copy and paste printer icons like you could in the past, if the re-install of the printer is done on the server using the printer IP's address, it works. I was trying to install the printer on the network the same way I would do it on a client machine, which didn't give me any options to rename the printer (regardless of whether I tried from the server or the client machine).

Thanks anyway!

Cindy K.