Mandatory Profile Problem

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I have a mandatory profile for students using Windows 2000
in a K-8 school. The same generic Student account is on
all of the computers in the school. This account is a
member of the Users Group. Everything works fine except
when I want some of the computers to regularly print to
one network printer and some others to regularly print to
a different network printer. Unless I save the printer
information in the profile for Student, it is gone after
each new login. And I would rather not all of the printers
in the Profile, nor would I like to maintain a separate
profile for each printer.

For the computer that a printer is actually attached to
(local printer) this is not a problem. Installing the
printer under an Administrator or Super User account
causes it to be available to the Student account as well.
And it doesn't go away after a new login. This does *not*
happen for Network printers.

Different computers can have shortcuts to different
installed programs by putting those shortcuts into the All
Users folder. Is there something similar for printers?
 
I know some admins logon locally to the lab PC and add a
local computer to a network port eg
\\printservername\printersharename. Local printers are
seen by any user hence the mapping is OK. It does mean
you have to add each printer yourself. Lots of school
admins do this so they don't mind, but there would be
better ways using computer policies I thinks.
Hope this helps for now.
Peter M
 
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