Using 'net use' to connect to remote printers

[Guest]

I'm trying to set up a laptop to connect to 4 seperate domains (each domain is at a seperate office, so only needs to talk to one at a time). I've set up 4 .bat files to connect to the shared drives using 'net use g: /delete' then 'net use g: \\server\share' for each of the offices (to clear the drive from the previous office then establish the new one). I was hoping to do a similar thing for the network printers, but I'm having trouble with it

'net use lpt1 \\server\printer' appears to connect, but the printer is not visible in the windows priner folder, having read a few posts here it looks like this only works for DOS printing. Is there any way for a bat file script to get the printer to appear in the printers folder, or perhaps just switch the default printer if I have to resort to fully installing all the printers at each of the offices?

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

You can use the Con2Prt command for this... See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=181663 for more information.

There are also various WSH scripts to install printers and/or make a
new default printer...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Net. & Smart Display MVP)
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