Printer Question

[Mike Adams]

I would like to have a default printer on a Win2k pc when no user is logged
in. We have a PC that is not logged in, but things run through a service
that is logged in as a local system account. The problem is that we do have
a process or two that, while they don't physically print, needs a default
printer setup. It appears to us that there is no default printer until a
user is logged in.......

Any assistance would be tremendously appreciated.

Mike Adams

 

[Mark-Allen Perry]

You might try copying the a real profile to the .Default Profile subdir.

Go to Control Panel, System, User Profiles, select the user to copy, select Copy, walk the tree to default user, press ok.

Maybe this will help.

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Mark-Allen Perry
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I would like to have a default printer on a Win2k pc when no user is logged
in. We have a PC that is not logged in, but things run through a service
that is logged in as a local system account. The problem is that we do have
a process or two that, while they don't physically print, needs a default
printer setup. It appears to us that there is no default printer until a
user is logged in.......

Any assistance would be tremendously appreciated.

Mike Adams

 

[Guest]

I have a W2K AD Domain. I use a startup script to connect my client systems
to my network printer. It's a simple batch file that runs when the computer
is turned on:
The command is like this

Net use \\server\printer

This can be applied at the domain level or at the workstation (local)
level. You can create the batch file then assign it via group policy / local
policy under the :

Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Scripts | Startup

Add your batch file to connect to your printer and walia. Your computer will
always connect to that printer on startup!

HTH

Drum on .. .. . .