I'm working on setting up printing in a school enviroment. We have printers
in classrooms and labs. We don't want the student to be able to add printers.
We want to assign a printer to a computer and have that printer be the
default for every different user that logs onto that computer. What is the
best way to make this work? The enviroment is going to be a new AD network
and I have the flexablity of creating OU's and using GPO to get this working.

Thanks,

Tim

create machine connections rather than user connections. If Server 2003 R2
is part of the mix you can deploy the printer with group policy.

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm

Once you have the connection, you can disable the addition of printers by
users via policy

gpedit.msc
User
Admin templates
Control Panel
Printers
Prevent addition of printers


This only blocks the UI. Anyone with tools can still add a printer.


--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"TimJM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm working on setting up printing in a school enviroment. We have
> printers
> in classrooms and labs. We don't want the student to be able to add
> printers.
> We want to assign a printer to a computer and have that printer be the
> default for every different user that logs onto that computer. What is the
> best way to make this work? The enviroment is going to be a new AD network
> and I have the flexablity of creating OU's and using GPO to get this
> working.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
>