Windows7 How Do I Add Network Printer To Appear At User Login? 2

[zoeythecat]

Hi All,

(Environment) - Windows2003 Domain/Windows7

* When multiple users log on to the domain, I would like a network printer to be automatically added. So, if userA logs on \\server\printer1 will be in the printer list and then userB logs on and will see the same printer mapped (and so on).

(Question) - How can I accomplish this?

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[rclarke250]

go to add a printer.Choose add a network printer,let the wizard search for printers, if it doesn't find the printer, make sure it is shared on the network, you could also select, printer wasn't found, and a box will pop up to type in the share name. then you go through the choosing of the make, and model for the drivers, or use downloaded drivers.

 

[zoeythecat]

Rclark,

Thanks for the post but I understand the concept how to
Add a network printer. What I'm asking is how to automate this so when any user logs in from a specific workstation how can this be automated so the network printer is mapped each time a user logs in. I know this can be done by login script for each user, but I don't want that because these users will login to other computers from different subnets. So, I'm looking to do this function from different computers and not for different users.

Hopefully I explained that better.

Can the great Linney help


Tia

 

[vacunita]

You can use printui.dll

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\servername\printername

You only need to run this once when you set up the printer, the printer will then be setup as a global printer on the machine and available to all users.

You can also use

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

to get a list of all the switches you can use with the command.





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[zoeythecat]

Phil,

This is great. This should do the trick. I'll test it out on Monday.

Thanks

 

[zoeythecat]

This worked like a charm...Thanks for the post.

 

[vacunita]

Glad I could help.

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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

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[cameramonkey]

Dont forget deployed printers via GPO.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722179(WS.10).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754699.aspx