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win2k W/S printer install for all users

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by loketar

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Heres the problem:
canon network photocopier/printer/scanner installed as a resource on a domain controller and shared out for access by domain members(by group).
Domain members who login via win2k w/s are locked down via gpo's so that they do not have access to control panel/search/run. I need to be able to install the printer on the domain member workstations so it is available to each user who logs into the workstation thereafter. I know of only way to do that, local ip port, but a local ip port defeats the purpose of the canon magagement software requirements. (which requires that all users print from one server share in order to keep track of impression limits and quotas) I would like to be able do the following; Login into the workstation with the domain administator account, install the printer/copier/scanner via the server share, set up the preferences and then logoff having the printer with the prefs configured during the install available to each user that logs into that workstation thereafter. Anyone with any ideas, please send 'em my way. Not even the canon guys here can help out as they have never had to do a network install on a network that has profiles locked down like ours. Thanks in advance to any and all that reply!! :)

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by joseph moore

Try this Technet article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=252388

It is called "How to Add a Default Printer for All New Users."

It basically talks about editing the Registry manually to the Default User profile. Anything put into Default User is migrated into any user accounts when they FIRST log into a machine.

So, here is the caveat to this method. If the user has already logged into WORKSTATIONX, this procedure will NOT work. It will only work for a machine that the user has NEVER logged into before. Then, once the log in, their local profile is created, and it includes the default printer.

The only way I can think of to get this Technet article method to work on a machine that a user has already logged into is to delete the current user local profile. Then make the changes as per the Technet article to the Default User profile. THEN have the user log in again; at that time, their profile would be newly created (since you deleted it. It does not exist at this time, that is why it is being made from scratch again). And the newly made profile would inherit the default printer.

hope this helps

by loketar

I was able to resolve with the inclusion of net use command in the login script.

by robcoxon

If you have a limited number of users who need access to the printer you can disable the policy and then logon for them, add the printer, logoff, and reenable the policy.

by loketar

I was able to resolve with the inclusion of net use command in the login script.

by kinetechs

A couple things that come to mind, which may or may not fit exactly, are:

1) A logon script for the users that maps the printer.
2) Web based printing. Since the search/run/etc. functions are locked down, the users can install the printers using Microsoft's Web Based Printing. In Internet Explorer, http://print server name/printers will get you there. They can then click on a printer that's shared and they'll have the option of connecting to it to install.

Cheers!
~Sean

by loketar

Hey thanks, your answers were the best of the ones recieved. It came to me last night just before I went to sleep, that the problem could be easily resolved via a net use inclusion in a login script. Also, the web printing is a good idea too.

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