How can I set a different default printer for each hardware profile?

[Gene]

I need my laptop to pick the correct printer as the
default printer based on the network. I have setup 2
hardware profiles, HomeNet and OfficeNet , on the laptop
in an attempt to facilitate using different default
printers.

How can I set a different default printer for each
hardware profile?

I use my laptop computer on 2 different networks, home and
office. I have to change my default printer when ever I
move between the Home and Office networks. The home
network is a workgroup set up with Win XP and the Office
network is a domain network. The printer for the office
network uses a print server, and the printer for the home
network uses LPT1.

The printer on the home network is attached to a computer
running WIN XP professional.


I cannot use different user name to logons, because when I
am on the home network, I still need to use the same user
name on the laptop to be authenticated to connect to the
office network (via VPN).

 

[Perry]

If you have to log onto your vpn connection then user name
on your computer should not matter, but check with your
company's IT guy. You should be able to setup a completely
different user profile for home.

 

[Dan Roberts]

AFAIK there's no way to do this using built in Windows features.. you'll
probably want to approach this programmatically. Try looking at this
website for ideas on how to script setting default printer via a logon
script:

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Printer_Logon.htm