Using GPOs to assign printers question

[Greg T]

I work in a school with four different collections of
computers, each with their own designated printer. The
network is Windows 2000 and the clients are all XP Pro.

Our students have roaming profiles and wander among the
four groups of computers and therefore print to different
printers depending on whatever group they are working in.

I have one OU for Students, and four OUs, one for each
group of computers.

I have four different logon scripts that are responsible
for deleting any printers, and installing only the correct
printer.

I have created GPOs to run the script for each OU of
computers, but they aren't running.

Why could this be?

The script and other files are in the \\server\NETLOGON
area, and the student accounts can browse to the script
and run it from there, so I know they have access to it.

 

[ptwilliams]

Let me get this straight...

You've used a GPO to apply startup scripts to computers in an OU and these
startup scripts aren't running?

Or,

You've created a GPO to apply logon scripts to an OU (other than the OU with
the user accounts in) and these logon scripts aren't running?


If the latter, that's because users process logon scripts and computers
startup scripts. There's no users in your computer OUs so there's no users
going to process these scripts. You'll either need to make this a startup
script, or link the GPO to the students OU.

If the former, you'll have to look in the event log for any UsrEnv and/or
SceCli warnings and/ or errors. And possibly come back with some additional
info.


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I work in a school with four different collections of
computers, each with their own designated printer. The
network is Windows 2000 and the clients are all XP Pro.

Our students have roaming profiles and wander among the
four groups of computers and therefore print to different
printers depending on whatever group they are working in.

I have one OU for Students, and four OUs, one for each
group of computers.

I have four different logon scripts that are responsible
for deleting any printers, and installing only the correct
printer.

I have created GPOs to run the script for each OU of
computers, but they aren't running.

Why could this be?

The script and other files are in the \\server\NETLOGON
area, and the student accounts can browse to the script
and run it from there, so I know they have access to it.