windows 7 adding printer with script

[itsteapot]

HI guys anyone had a play with win 7 on a domain?
I have been using a script for years to add drives on logon, guess what it wont work with win 7!
It seems to be a permission problem , it opens a dialogue box which requires an input from the user then it runs a download to add the driver. however it then will not add the printer due to a permission error.
Any ideas?
Apart from this it networks fine.
PS personally I would stay with XP but those up top......

 

[Geates]

I'm been running Windows 7 for about 8 months (started with RC) the following printer script has not presented an issue:

set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

'Add Network printers
objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\nmhps01\nmhis15"
objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\nmhps01\nmhis06"

'Set Default Printer
objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\nmhps01\nmhis15"

'Attrib to system, hidden and read only
objShell.Run("attrib %systemroot%\printers.vbs +r +s +h")
[\code]

Care to share your code?

Not sure if it's GPO but I was getting permission denied messages when trying to save a file to the root!  It was resolved once I took ownership of the root.

-Geates

 

[itsteapot]

will post my script Monday when I am back at work.

 

[itsteapot]

Hi I have been using this for years, server 2003, xp pro stations


rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n\\SERVERNAME\PRINTERNAME

 

[mrmovie]

does it work correctly from the commandline? i.e. forget about vbscript.
either way, if you are getting issues then just use Geates's suggestion?