pushing printers / updates

[burnaby]

Can someone please tell me how I can go about doing this
in my 2003 ad. I want to have groups that logon and have
there printers installed. I also have updates that need to
go in directories on individual pcs how can this be done.

if there is a link to something please let me read

thanks

 

[NIC Student]

Printers can be assigned by user logon script with "net use" if you want or
you can use vbs scripts to attach printers. You can set permissions on
shared printers to only allow some users to use them.

What kind of "updates"? What directories? Please be more specific.

 

[burnabyryan]

Can the printers be installed locally at each machine? if
the user is just a domain user.

How can I install the printers with netuse ?? I would
think they have to be installed before we can use them no?

updates on local machines ie windows updates.
and updates to our office macros running from the local
computer for example I want to push a file to everyones
c:\documents\data folder when they log on

Thanks

 

[Matthew Jones]

NET USE:
net use \\servername\printersharename

There are other ways to install a printer to a user using the runndll32
command but that's way more complicated.

Pushing a file via login scripts:
The issue I have with that is
1) You are pushing the same file to "X" # of people.
2) The c:\documents\data directory does not get backed up {I am
ASSuming}
3) In the event of a system re-install you have to search a users HD to
make sure no local files exist.

Solutions:
1) Place the file in a shared location and send e-mail with link info:
\\servername\sharename\filename
This will allow everyone to access the file. You can make it read
only if desired or even a
template so they can save their revised copy to their normal
location.
If you use Exchange, public folders is the 'other' answer
2) To get the local documents off of the users hard drive you can use AD
to create a GPO
which moves their MY DOCUMENTS directory to a shared location.

However, if you must do as you are saying - and assuming all users have the
same data location you simply should use a shared folder and a UNC path to
copy the data to the local machine(s).
In the login script:
copy /Y \\dotservername\sharename\filename c:\documents\data

That should work.