Pushing printer to computer objects. A little help please?

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I’ve been successful having printers install on client PC automatically via the user configuration login scripts. When I try to get the script to run on startup through the computer configuration scripts, I don't get the printers to show up. I see the script running before I login, but the printers don't install. What could be the reason for this? Is it installing them on another profile? What am I doing wrong? Is anyone doing this and have an answer that would allow for me to get printers to install automatically to the PC regardless of the user logging in?

Thanks for your time,

Mike
 
Hello Mike.

The reason for the behavior you are seeing is that startup scripts run in
the context of the local computer. Because printers are part of a specific
user's profile, when the script runs during startup, the printers are never
placed into the user profile. Because the logon script runs after the
user's profile has been loaded, the script successfully places the printers
in the user's profile.

You need to create a group policy for those computers to map printers for
users using them.

198642 Overview of Logon, Logoff, Startup, and Shutdown Scripts in Windows
2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=198642

David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support



mnollar said:
I've been successful having printers install on client PC automatically
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via the user configuration login scripts. When I try to get the script to
run on startup through the computer configuration scripts, I don't get the
printers to show up. I see the script running before I login, but the
printers don't install. What could be the reason for this? Is it
installing them on another profile? What am I doing wrong? Is anyone doing
this and have an answer that would allow for me to get printers to install
automatically to the PC regardless of the user logging in?
 
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