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Richard Maier
Jul 30, 2002, 12:57:23 PM7/30/02
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I'm the I.S. Manager for Community Legal Services Inc.
and because we have a limited amount of PCs all running
Windows XP Pro, we sometimes need students to log into a
regular staff member's PC under the student logon.
However, because the network printer is only installed
under the main user's profile, the student's profile
loads with no printer installed. Is there a way to
install a network printer under the local administrator
account for each PC to load whenever a new profile is
created as a result of someone logging in as a domain
user but new user to the PC? It works for applications
but doesn't seem to work for printers. Our users don't
know how to install a network printer when they are
prompted that they can't print because of no printer
existing and have to call the help desk each time they
log into a PC running Windows XP Pro for the first time.
Furthermore, I don't wish to use roaming profiles to
accomplish this.
and because we have a limited amount of PCs all running
Windows XP Pro, we sometimes need students to log into a
regular staff member's PC under the student logon.
However, because the network printer is only installed
under the main user's profile, the student's profile
loads with no printer installed. Is there a way to
install a network printer under the local administrator
account for each PC to load whenever a new profile is
created as a result of someone logging in as a domain
user but new user to the PC? It works for applications
but doesn't seem to work for printers. Our users don't
know how to install a network printer when they are
prompted that they can't print because of no printer
existing and have to call the help desk each time they
log into a PC running Windows XP Pro for the first time.
Furthermore, I don't wish to use roaming profiles to
accomplish this.
Richard E. Maier
I.S. Manager
CLS
Kent W. England [MVP]
Jul 30, 2002, 1:24:47 PM7/30/02
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Open Help and Support and search for "printer permissions". You'll discover the unique way to setup permissions for a printer resource. You most likely want to add "print" permission for Everyone or for the Users group, depending on how the students logon locally.
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Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
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Richard Maier
Jul 30, 2002, 5:36:26 PM7/30/02
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No offense, but I don't think you totally understand my
delima. I simply want to be able to add a network
created as a result of someone logging into it inherit
that printer installation. I looked into what you
suggested and "everyone" already was set for "Print"
permissions. So, this doesn't seem to be a permissions
issue. Any further advice from you would be most
appreciated.
delima. I simply want to be able to add a network
printer under the local administrator account for each
Windows XP Pro Workstation and have any profile that is created as a result of someone logging into it inherit
that printer installation. I looked into what you
suggested and "everyone" already was set for "Print"
permissions. So, this doesn't seem to be a permissions
issue. Any further advice from you would be most
appreciated.
Thanks,
Richard E. Maier
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Kent W. England [MVP]
Jul 30, 2002, 9:16:16 PM7/30/02
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Printers are installed per machine, not per user.
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Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
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Jeff Overall
Jul 30, 2002, 10:33:40 PM7/30/02
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Hi,
Wrong. Printers (software) are stored in the profile. The printer drivers
are loaded per machine. This is however a network printer.
Create a user (make it an admin), log on with that user and configure that
users profile with all of the printers and settings you want etc.
Log off.
Log on as another admin and copy the profile using the system icon
properties/ user profiles tab to the default user.
Any user logging on will use the default user profile by default.
A better solution is to use a logon script (WSH and Vbscript) combined with
group policy is your using AD.
Wrong. Printers (software) are stored in the profile. The printer drivers
are loaded per machine. This is however a network printer.
Create a user (make it an admin), log on with that user and configure that
users profile with all of the printers and settings you want etc.
Log off.
Log on as another admin and copy the profile using the system icon
properties/ user profiles tab to the default user.
Any user logging on will use the default user profile by default.
A better solution is to use a logon script (WSH and Vbscript) combined with
group policy is your using AD.
Jeff
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Chris Rolfe
Jul 31, 2002, 3:06:35 AM7/31/02
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Hello I have a problem close to this the only way I now
have to fix this is to reboot the pc. hope this helps a
bit.>.
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have to fix this is to reboot the pc. hope this helps a
bit.
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Darryn
Jul 31, 2002, 6:39:42 AM7/31/02
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Both Windows XP and Windows 2000 have a secret feature
that I found one day. Got to a bos box and type 'rundll32
printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?' Then you will see what this
command you can do. What you are actually doing is
running some code in the printui.dll - basically you are
just running an exe (don't know why microsoft didn't
provide one). I use this method to do all my network
printer setup. You could put some commands like this in a
logon script or in the 'RUn at Logon' (or whatever the
policy is) in group policies. I also then deny access to
seting up printers - always seems the first thing people
like to do when a printer is not working is to try and
add one!
that I found one day. Got to a bos box and type 'rundll32
printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?' Then you will see what this
command you can do. What you are actually doing is
running some code in the printui.dll - basically you are
just running an exe (don't know why microsoft didn't
provide one). I use this method to do all my network
printer setup. You could put some commands like this in a
logon script or in the 'RUn at Logon' (or whatever the
policy is) in group policies. I also then deny access to
seting up printers - always seems the first thing people
like to do when a printer is not working is to try and
add one!
Hope this helps!
Cheers
Darryn
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Michael-John Kinne
Aug 1, 2002, 5:35:12 PM8/1/02
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I would recommend for your situation to create a defaultprinter script that
is run from the All Users Startup.
is run from the All Users Startup.
Here is the text of the "defaultuser.vbs" file that I deploy on the 800+
computers at my University:
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Dim WN 'windows Network Variable
Set WN = CreateObject("WScript.Network") 'Create Network Object
WN.SetDefaultPrinter("%printername%") 'Sets the Default Printer
---
Just replace %printername% with the name of the printer installed on the
local machine.
Hope this helps.
_Michael
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Ilya Kligman
Aug 1, 2002, 8:26:41 PM8/1/02
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I have the same problem at schools. Where can I find the
HOWTO on setting printers by script or Group Policy means?>.
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HOWTO on setting printers by script or Group Policy means?
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Ilya Kligman
Aug 1, 2002, 8:27:11 PM8/1/02
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I have the same problem at schools. Where can I find the
HOWTO on setting printers by script or Group Policy means?
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HOWTO on setting printers by script or Group Policy means?
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