Installing a printer driver with Rundll32

[SoultakerPT]

Hello and greeting from Portugal to everyone!

I'm trying to restore settings to a printer from a *.dat file using the following command:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n "printername" /a "datfile.dat"

The error I always get is "Operation could not be completed."

I believe there is something wrong with my command line but I just can't figure it out!

The printer installation works fine using this method.

By the way...I'm using Windows 2008 R2.

Can someone please help me?

Best Regards,

Soultaker

[cluberti]

What kinds of settings are you trying to set with the .dat file? You might be able to achieve the same with the .vbs print configuration scripts inside the Printing_Admin_Scripts folder in the system32 directory.

[SoultakerPT]

thx for the quick reply.

I didn't know that scripts!

But...in this case I believe they cannot help because what I need to change is really driver specific, like...Enable Duplex Unit, etc.

[maxXPsoft]

you on Win 7? use PRINTUI.EXE

[jaclaz]

By the way...I'm using Windows 2008 R2.

you on Win 7?

jaclaz

Edited December 11, 2009 by jaclaz

[maxXPsoft]

should be same

edit: actually all printui.exe is just a short way to do it instead of rundll

Edited December 11, 2009 by maxXPsoft