Assigning Printers

[Guest]

Is there a way to automaticaly assign printers when a user logs onto certin
machines through group policy. I want to avoid having to manually setup the
printers on each and every machine at a site under each profile for a user or
users which is what I do know and is very time consuming. We run a windows
2000 domain.

 

[Mark Heitbrink [MVP]]

Is there a way to automaticaly assign printers when a user logs onto certin
machines through group policy. [..]

No. Publish Printers (2003 R2) is not a functional way to handle it.
It´s not GPO, it´s still scripting, but some people think it´s cool.

Create a login script and deploy the printer by using con2prt.exe
http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/tools/liste_unsortiert.htm
or use "rundll" -> rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

You can filter in different ways, like
- Inside the Script:
if %computername%=machine1 con2prt \\server\printer1
Or in combination with "ifmember.exe"
- Filter by dsacls on the GPO
Run the script as a logon script (user configuration) and link it
to the computer, enable loopback
etc.

Mark