Auto add printers?

[lysis]

I've got people who login all over the place, and when they login to a computer for the first time, I have to run to the computer and setup their printers. It is a combination between Network and Local printers that they are using.

Is there a way to automatically grab the printers? Is there a way to make it get printers from somebody else's profile on that system? If neither of those can be done, can it be done with a group policy, or with a batch file?

Thanks guys.

[InTheWayBoy]

Well 2003 R2 has a new feature that helps out with this, but even with that I always have to go to a new users computer and make sure everything is okay. Of course 2000 doesn't offer it, but I just wanted to point out it's still an issue in most cases.

There are several ways to handle it, mostly depends on your setup. For instance, I have three buildings in my organization. I have three OU's, on for each building. In each OU are all the computers for that building. I then have three printer scripts GPO's, one for each OU. At the parent OU I have them all linked, but filtered to only hit the child OU that it needs to be. Sounds confusing but it works well enough. Of course if you don't have this structure then that is useless to you.

As far as batches to do all this, I've never found a magical one that works all the time. I've used KiX and AutoIt, and both have support in some for for printers...either built it or via UDF's. KiX is designed from the ground up to be a login scripting language, so you might get the best results for that. You could also do this with vbs I would imagine, but I don't know how.

Check this forum out:

http://www.kixtart.org/ubbthreads/postlist...t=0&Board=UBB12

It's for all the user created UDF's, which are extensions to the basic language. There are printer scripts to find out which printers are already installed, others to remove, and finally some to add. Of course you'll have to take that and make it work for you, but it's a start.

[eyeball]

if you want to add printers on login for these users google "con2prt" and run it from command line with /? it works perfect for connecting printers