Restarting printer spooler on a server.

[Torris]

Hi.

im kind of new to scripting...

Im trying to make a .bat script that run with my admin credentials so it access the server, and then restarting the printerspooler.
Is this possible?

My printer server name: s0003119

And the spooler restart service i think i got right....

Net stop "print spooler"
net start "print spooler"

Thanks to any answer!

[abc0502]

Here is the code:

@Echo off
Cls
Echo The Print Spooler service is stopping.
Net Stop spooler >nul
ping localhost -n 3 >nul
Echo The Print Spooler service is starting.
Net Start spooler >nul
Echo Service Restarted Sucessfully
ping localhost -n 3 >nul
Exit

The Main Commands are in red and the green command for waiting for about 3 secondes before running the next command
and the blue commands is for showing text in the command window, you can delete the blue and green if you want the command to be run quicly and without interface to the user, and leave the black command as it.

[foxidrive]

I think he/she wants to do it on a remote machine.

You'd probably do it with PSEXEC but there would need to be error checking too, to ensure the service stopped before restarting it.

[Torris]

Here is the code:

@Echo off
Cls
Echo The Print Spooler service is stopping.
Net Stop spooler >nul
ping localhost -n 3 >nul
Echo The Print Spooler service is starting.
Net Start spooler >nul
Echo Service Restarted Sucessfully
ping localhost -n 3 >nul
Exit

The Main Commands are in red and the green command for waiting for about 3 secondes before running the next command
and the blue commands is for showing text in the command window, you can delete the blue and green if you want the command to be run quicly and without interface to the user, and leave the black command as it.

Is it possible to send this command to the ip address of the printer? Where do i put the ip in the script?

[Torris]

I think he/she wants to do it on a remote machine.

You'd probably do it with PSEXEC but there would need to be error checking too, to ensure the service stopped before restarting it.

Hi,

You are right. I am sitting on my personal pc. I have a printer server that i want to send this command to.

My printer ip example: 10.228.16.12

and thank you everyone for quick answers so far!:)

[abc0502]

What is a printer server exactly, what system does it run?

[Torris]

What is a printer server exactly, what system does it run?

We run windows server 2008, and have all the printer drivers installed on that server. if a printer stops we need to restart the printerspooler on the server.

So what i was thinking was is there a way running a script from my local computer to the server that restarts the printer spooler?

[abc0502]

You can use the SC command to stop and start the service and using your example IP
Try this code:

SC \\10.228.16.12 stop spooler
SC \\10.228.16.12 start spooler

I couldn't test it because i don't have a server but try this commands from the command line if worked we can put them in a batch file then

[abc0502]

You can follow Foxidrive suggestion and download the PSTools from here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx
and extract this command tool : PsService.exe and double click on it and accept the license
then make this batch:

@Echo off
Cls
set "PsService=C:\PsService.exe"
%PsService% \\10.228.16.12 -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD restart spooler

Replace the red line with the directory of the tool "where you extracted it", and replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your user and pass or remove the options in blue if not needed then run the batch