URGENT: Add a shared printer for all users in a computer

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I'm logging in a client computer as an administrator and adding a remote
printer (shared in another computer), but when a different user logs in, the
shared printer doesn't appear in Control Panel.

What am I missing? Is this the excepted behaviour? What should I do to the
let all users that log in the computer use the shared printer (and not
having the configurate each one)?

By the way, I'm working in a Windows 2003 Server domain.

Thanks!
 
You may have many options. You may add the printer to the default user or
use script. This search result may help.

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Gaspar said:
I'm logging in a client computer as an administrator and adding a
remote printer (shared in another computer), but when a different
user logs in, the shared printer doesn't appear in Control Panel.

What am I missing? Is this the excepted behaviour? What should I do
to the let all users that log in the computer use the shared printer (and
not having the configurate each one)?

By the way, I'm working in a Windows 2003 Server domain.

Thanks!
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Network printers are always set per user, not per machine. If you have R2,
this is a little easier to manage, but it's entirely possible to deploy them
via group policy or login script without that.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722179.aspx
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/logon_printer_computer.htm

These are just a couple - google will yield many hits. Search for something
like:
deploy network printer group policy
 
Gaspar said:
I'm logging in a client computer as an administrator and adding a remote
printer (shared in another computer), but when a different user logs in, the
shared printer doesn't appear in Control Panel.
Click to expand...

Setup the printer as using LPT1, and then change the port to the network
resource. This way it is not user-dependent.

Or, use TCP/IP (LPR) printing, which avoids all the problems of SMB-based
printer sharing.
 
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