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Network printers in a user profile?

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by rsears

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On W2K or NT4 I want to find out which network printers are in a specific user?s profile on a specific machine without having the user log on to it. Where can I find this out? Is there a file somewhere? Can it be found in the registry? Is there a free admin tool somewhere I can download and use to audit user profiles to determine what printers a given user has in their profile? Thanks for any information.

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by joseph moore

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections is the Registry key you want. There will be a subkey under that location, one for each installed printer in that user profile.
Now, you can just open Regedit on your system, click Registry -> Connect Network Registry, and point to a remote system to connect to it. Then you can open that location and see what they have.

hope this helps

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