soljoe Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 We have 12 printers on our network and all have their own IP addresses. There are about 150 users using these printers in different locations at different times. All 12 printers have been installed on all the computers. We just purchased a new color printer and I need to give access to everyone. The only option I know now is to log in as either admin or myself and install the drivers and I have to do this on all 200+ computers we have. Is there a way that I can use a policy or network install to save me the headache of going from one office to another?Any help will be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluescreens Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 We have 12 printers on our network and all have their own IP addresses. There are about 150 users using these printers in different locations at different times. All 12 printers have been installed on all the computers. We just purchased a new color printer and I need to give access to everyone. The only option I know now is to log in as either admin or myself and install the drivers and I have to do this on all 200+ computers we have. Is there a way that I can use a policy or network install to save me the headache of going from one office to another?Any help will be greatly appreciated. I suggest a GPO based, machine based script that maps printers as appropriate every time the machine starts up. Simple, easy to maintain....A way to dress it up a bit is to script it so that only certain subnets get certain printers, but that may be more trouble than you want to mess with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oioldman Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 if you have an AD then users can do a search and install the printer themselves as they will pick drivers of the printserver, that way you've saved legwork and not everybody will use "because it is new" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soljoe Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 Yes we do have AD but users have no rights to install anything including printers and oh by the way we currently don't use a print server. Does anyone know of a script I can use??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluescreens Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Yes we do have AD but users have no rights to install anything including printers and oh by the way we currently don't use a print server. Does anyone know of a script I can use??? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314486/en-usBear in mind you'll be fine if you make this a *machine* based startup script; it runs in the System context, so no worries about user access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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