No, you don't have to upgrade to 2000. There's the "WinNT://" service providor which works just fine for NT machines. That link I gave you includes what objects are available to which service providors. You can even interface the entire Novell NDS structure (OU's, users, printers, etc..)

Here's a little sample. This will list the names of printers on a praticular NT server.. 

!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw/in/;

#fill in domain and server
my $domain = '';
my $server = '';
my $printer;

my $objServer = Win32::OLE->GetObject("WinNT://$domain/$server");
$objServer->{FILTER} = ["printqueue"];

foreach $printer (in $objServer) {
    print "$printer->{NAME}\n";
}

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Hope this helps..
Rich

In reply to (rchiav)Re(3): WinNT Printer monitoring... by rchiav
in thread WinNT Printer monitoring... by Necos

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