How to 'Unhide' Printer?

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On our Win2000 Domain, we have several printers. When you go to 'Add New
Printer' wizard, and then select 'Browse,' several of the printers are listed
with their UNC path name. With other printers we have, they are all nested
under the server X they are installed to. So users have to double click on
that server to see the printer.

Is there a way to have all the printers that are installed onto server X
show on their own. I want them to automatically appear in the list, as many
users do not know things about server names, etc?

Thanks
 
When you browse to the server (In Windows Explorer) you should see the
printers listed there. If you double click on the printer it should install
it to the local machine.

Alternatively you could create a startup script for the users on your
network something like

Dim WSHNetwork
Set WSHNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")

WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\ServerName\Printer1Name"
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\ServerName\Printer2Name"

WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\ServerName\Printer1Name"

Save this as Printers.vbs for example

hth

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