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Unattended setup of local printer

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Hi,

I want to unattended setup my local printer.
It is a Lexmark printer which is gonna be connected to LPT-1

Anybody any advice?

Thanks in advance,
Eduard de Vries

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Unattended setup of local printer

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You’re leaving out quite some relevant details, like the protection of your C: drive for the end-users and your NT policies.
Generally speaking, the C: drive and the registry are too much secured (by the organisational policy, not by NT defaults) for an end-user to install a printer driver manually so also to do it unattended. So you’ll need:
– a SW distrib package which can run under a service account. SMS, ZENWorks, Intel LANDesk, Veritas WinInstall there are many
– a way to make the printer setup unattended. If Lexmark doesn’t do it (expected – even HP doesn’t) then the solution is a snapshot in the sw distrib package. Or MS SysDiff if you don’t want to pay for this package, but then you have the security rights problem.

Hope thishelps,

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Unattended setup of local printer

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Unattended setup of local printer

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Do a runonce at the end of the unattended setup to call a batch file. In that batch file call SCRIPTIT and create a script that goes thru screens and adds the printer. This is no a pretty way to do it but it has been done before.

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Sometimes, MS just makes you cry.

But thanks, it is what I needed to know!

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