Active Directory Printers

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Morley Lee

Does any one know how to publish printers in active directory Windows 2003
network so that they automatically get installed on a workstation (windows
XP or windows 2000)? I just don't want to have to add all printers on every
pc.

Thanks in advance,
Morley
 
Morley said:
Does any one know how to publish printers in active directory Windows 2003
network so that they automatically get installed on a workstation (windows
XP or windows 2000)? I just don't want to have to add all printers on every
pc.
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you can connect the printers to the clients with the "con2prt.exe" tool.
You can combine this tool with a logon script.

The next possibility is to use rundll.exe printui.dll

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;189105&x=22&y=11
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;181663&x=11&y=8
 
Not when using GPOs to deploy the printer connections. The spooler supports
these but the group policy API's used to retrieve the connection information
don't support this.

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

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Alan said:
Not when using GPOs to deploy the printer connections. The spooler supports
these but the group policy API's used to retrieve the connection information
don't support this.
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Ah. IMO, the paragraph should say this, instead of saying what it says now.
 
I looked at the reference you linked. It does state this currently.

Note:
Only per-user printer connections are supported on computers running
Windows 2000. Per-machine printer connections are supported on computers
running Windows XP or later.



--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
Alan said:
I looked at the reference you linked. It does state this currently.

Note:
Only per-user printer connections are supported on computers running
Windows 2000. Per-machine printer connections are supported on computers
running Windows XP or later.
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My point is that I think that the reference is incomplete and/or
misleading. It should say something like this:

"Publishing per-machine printers via GPOs works only on computers
running Windows XP or later."

I understand that the help topic is talking about GPOs, but it implies
that per-machine printers don't work at all on Windows 2000, which is
incorrect.
 
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