Modify selection of Default Printer

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Bill Bradley

We assign network printers to our computers. However, when a user logs on a
computer for the first time, the Default Printer selected (by the OS?) is
ALWAYS "Office Document Writer" (we use Office 2003 SP3).

I need to change this automatic assignment to be ANYTHING else besides that,
as, they always call us, when their stuff doesn't print to the network.

Anyway to prevent THIS particular printer from being assigned as the default?

Thanks.
 
Bill said:
We assign network printers to our computers. However, when a user logs
on a
computer for the first time, the Default Printer selected (by the OS?)
is
ALWAYS "Office Document Writer" (we use Office 2003 SP3).

I need to change this automatic assignment to be ANYTHING else besides
that,
as, they always call us, when their stuff doesn't print to the
network.

Anyway to prevent THIS particular printer from being assigned as the
default?

Thanks.
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I use con2prt.exe to connect network printers via a logon script file -
parameters defined here.

CON2PRT: Lets the user disconnect all existing connections to Windows
NT
printers and connect to newly specified Windows NT printers.

Usage: CON2PRT [ /? | /h | /f |
[/c \\printserver\share | /cd
\\printserver\share]+]
where:

/? - displays usage.
/h - displays usage.
/f - deletes all existing printer connections.
/c - connects to \\printserver\share printer.
/cd - connects to \\printserver\share printer and sets it as the
default
printer.
 
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