New admin question

[Mervin Williams]

I am new to Windows administration, and I am trying to set up printers for
my clients. What I'd like to happen is that when each user logs onto any
PC, their user profile should contain each printer on the network along with
the network default printer. This should occur even for newly created
users.

Furthermore, if an existing user has changed his default printer to one
other than the network default, this should not be overridden.

Any assistance to help me achieve this would be greatly appreciated.

Mervin Williams

 

[Henry Craven]

See the response to your other post.

patience is a virtue ( ....and excessive cross
is NOT a good thing. )

 

[PC]

Hi Mervin,

Here is an example of a vb script you can use to assign printers and shares
to clients.

Dim WSHNetwork
Set WSHNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")

WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "L:" , "\\Servername\Share1"
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "W:" , "\\Servername\Share2"

WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\ServerName\Printer1"
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\ServerName\Printer2"
WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\ServerName\Pritner1"

Save this to a file with a .vbs extention (e.g. printers.vbs) and add it to
the users startup profile

If you're network is windows 2000 you can use group policy to lock down the
systems and prevent user from making changes. (Rght click the domain name in
"AD Users and Computers" and go to properties)

hth.

Paul