http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19523877 en Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:33:18 EDT Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:33:18 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19523877 tekmunki : In 2003 R2, there's a domain policy for pushing out printers. Of course, I had to push out the client "pushprinters.exe" to the client machines via a login script, but it really does make managing a large amount of pushed printers easier.
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www.tekmunki.com]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19523877 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:04:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19476512 bilbusb : use a vbs login script you can add printers based on group membership. If the computer is a member of a group such as "lab1" it will install the printer.

Google vbs login scripts there are a ton.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19476512 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:06:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19459669 yaplej : Here is how we do it. This makes the printer a user setting rather than a system setting.

rem add printer1rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n"\\servername\printer1"rem add printer2rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n"\\servername\printer2"rem make printer2 defaultrundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n"\\servername\printer2"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19459669 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:31:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19431374 kc8jwt : I am doing this now with Group Policy in Windows 2003 R2 now, but before that I was using a batch file, but it had a twist. Since I am in a school setting, we didn't want all of the printers installed by default. We wanted certain printers installed on certain computers. I embeded it in the login script. I did the following when I did it. (As an example)

IF EXIST %windir%\dd.txt GOTO DD :DDc:\windows\con2prt /cd \\tccc-server\drafting_hp_laserc:\windows\con2prt /c \\base-station\hp_plotterc:\windows\con2prt /c \\tccc-server\cta_hp_plotterGOTO End
The con2prt program I believe I got out of the Windows 2000 Resource kit. We placed a text file on the local machine in the windows directory. There was nothing in the file. We just looked for the file name. The con2prt will also disconnect printers. We have done that when we have changed printers in classrooms to get rid of old print shares.

We still use this method because I have not found a way yet to set a default printer with group policy when there is more than one printer to install. So we use this method. In some places, we just set one printer and then encode in the group policy a location so that when they browse the active directory, we have already populated a locations so that when they hit search, they only get the printers in that room. It doesn't mean they can't just erase the location and search the entire directory, but if they see the printer they are looking for.
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19431374 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:35:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430999 huntermcdole : I use a login script to add printers. Here is how I check for a printer and then add one if needed. (Works on XP Clients, unknown about others)

The file is named printer.bat

REM ***** Check and Install Copier***** cscript %systemroot%\system32\prnmngr.vbs -l | find "Printer name \\server\TOSHIBA e-STUDIO450Series PCL6"IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (cscript %systemroot%\system32\prnmngr.vbs -ac -p "\\server\TOSHIBA e-STUDIO450Series PCL6"echo "\\server\TOSHIBA e-STUDIO450Series PCL6 installed")]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430999 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:33:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430892 Rob : See if this helps:

»www.microsoft.com/technet/techne···rinters/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430892 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:15:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430788 GlazedHam : Yes, we are running Serer 2003.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430788 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:59:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430541 Rob : I know you can on Windows 2003. Is that what you are using? It's called the Print Management Component. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430541 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:26:22 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430438 GlazedHam : Is there a way to force a new printer on the Server to get installed on to everyone's computer automatically instead of having the end user go to Add Printer or double clicking on the server name by going Start,Run and typing \\servername?

And is there a way to lock down the printer preferences on workstations from a domain?

Thanks for any info you can pass on.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19430438 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:08:45 EDT