setting up printers

[WesleyW]

When a printer is connected directly to a computer, the printer is automatically found and is made the default printer for the user that logs on. Is there a way to have a printer that is shared over a network perform the same way? As of right now when a person logs on to a workstation for the first time we have to add a printer and provide the shared printer. Would it be possible to put the shared printer icon in the all users folder??

 

[kevfranklin]

I haven't found a way of doing this either but heres how we get around it.
All of our Printers are HP so we use the latest Hp Install Network Printer Wizard, at the end of this you have an option to create an automatic install EXE file. We then put this to a shared area and point users to this. It runs fine for users, even those with limited rights!

 

[wolluf]

Is this workgroup or domain? Are we talking one machine or many? If domain, do you use romaing profiles? You can do this via the Default User profile - post back with more details if necessary.