Hello,
I've spent quite a lot of time looking into letting users set their own default printers. The setup is two load balances servers XPa FR2, Windows 2000 SP3, roaming profiles and published apps. There are a mixture of printer configurationsm, some print servers imported into the farm, some locally attached and some client network printers.
I've got a couple of questions that have been puzzling me and any help would be much appreciated.
I've read that I should be able to publish the printers folder and users can then set a default printer depending on their requirements. I've created this in a test environment (only a single server) and my settings seem to be kept when I logout, e.g. if I set a local printer as the default when I log back in it is still the default. However in the live environment the default printer always reverts back to another printer. I am aware that I can make the clients main printer the default but I want to give the users the option of setting the default printer.
Has anyone done the same as me and managed to get it to work or should I just give up and make the user's deault printer whatever their main client printer is.
The second puzzle is that since there are many locally attached printers (both directly attached to the client PC and network printer) when these get auto created all the users see them. To some users this will be unacceptable, is there any way of only making the autocreated printers viewable to only the user of that particular PC. I know I can do this for imported printers so that only selected users can see the printer, but I want to achieve this for locally attached printers as well.
Many thanks
I've spent quite a lot of time looking into letting users set their own default printers. The setup is two load balances servers XPa FR2, Windows 2000 SP3, roaming profiles and published apps. There are a mixture of printer configurationsm, some print servers imported into the farm, some locally attached and some client network printers.
I've got a couple of questions that have been puzzling me and any help would be much appreciated.
I've read that I should be able to publish the printers folder and users can then set a default printer depending on their requirements. I've created this in a test environment (only a single server) and my settings seem to be kept when I logout, e.g. if I set a local printer as the default when I log back in it is still the default. However in the live environment the default printer always reverts back to another printer. I am aware that I can make the clients main printer the default but I want to give the users the option of setting the default printer.
Has anyone done the same as me and managed to get it to work or should I just give up and make the user's deault printer whatever their main client printer is.
The second puzzle is that since there are many locally attached printers (both directly attached to the client PC and network printer) when these get auto created all the users see them. To some users this will be unacceptable, is there any way of only making the autocreated printers viewable to only the user of that particular PC. I know I can do this for imported printers so that only selected users can see the printer, but I want to achieve this for locally attached printers as well.
Many thanks