Stopping auto-detect of printers?

[Guest Yobbo]

Hi

 

Is there anyway to stop the auto-detection of the printers that I install,

as I only want my shared printers to be available to certain machines?

 

Thanks

[Guest Steve B]

RE: Stopping auto-detect of printers?

 

Are you talking about searching for the printers in Active Directory?

 

"Yobbo" wrote:

> Hi

>

> Is there anyway to stop the auto-detection of the printers that I install,

> as I only want my shared printers to be available to certain machines?

>

> Thanks

>

>

>

>

[Guest Mark Heitbrink [MVP]]

Re: Stopping auto-detect of printers?

 

Hi

 

usually one group is enough, there are the same regulars ...

F´up to microsoft.public.windows.group_policy

 

Yobbo schrieb:

> Is there anyway to stop the auto-detection of the printers that I install,

> as I only want my shared printers to be available to certain machines?

 

You can use an own ADM Template.

http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/adm/Explorer.txt

 

CLASS USER

CATEGORY "Explorer View and Style

POLICY "Options"

PART "Deactivate automatic Search of Printer and Shares" CHECKBOX

VALUENAME "NoNetCrawling"

VALUEON NUMERIC 1 VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0

END PART

END POLICY

END CATEGORY

 

Mark

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