Guest Tom Posted December 15, 2007 Posted December 15, 2007 Hello, We are in the process of changing servers over the Christmas holiday. We are a school network that has 12-15 network printers. Is it possible to run a command in a script (Ex. NET USE LPT1: \\SERVER\SHARED_PRINTER /PERSISTENT:YES) to load the printers when the students login so that we don't have to go to each machine to load printers? Thanks for your time. Tom
Guest Hank Arnold (MVP) Posted December 15, 2007 Posted December 15, 2007 Re: Network Printer Setup with Login Scripts??? Tom wrote: > Hello, > We are in the process of changing servers over the Christmas holiday. We > are a school network that has 12-15 network printers. Is it possible to run > a command in a script (Ex. NET USE LPT1: \\SERVER\SHARED_PRINTER > /PERSISTENT:YES) to load the printers when the students login so that we > don't have to go to each machine to load printers? > Thanks for your time. > Tom Take a look at Print Migrator 3.1. http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/techinfo/overview/printmigrator3.1.mspx I would create a batch file that deletes the current printers and creates the new ones. Put it in the "All Users: Startup folder. You could set it up so that it only runs once. My favorite trick is to check for a folder. If it doesn't exist, then create the folder and then run the batch file. If it exists, then exit. -- Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
Guest Tom Posted December 15, 2007 Posted December 15, 2007 Re: Network Printer Setup with Login Scripts??? Thanks so much for the help. I'll give it a try. Tom "Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote: > Tom wrote: > > Hello, > > We are in the process of changing servers over the Christmas holiday. We > > are a school network that has 12-15 network printers. Is it possible to run > > a command in a script (Ex. NET USE LPT1: \\SERVER\SHARED_PRINTER > > /PERSISTENT:YES) to load the printers when the students login so that we > > don't have to go to each machine to load printers? > > Thanks for your time. > > Tom > > Take a look at Print Migrator 3.1. > > http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/techinfo/overview/printmigrator3.1.mspx > > I would create a batch file that deletes the current printers and > creates the new ones. Put it in the "All Users: Startup folder. You > could set it up so that it only runs once. My favorite trick is to check > for a folder. If it doesn't exist, then create the folder and then run > the batch file. If it exists, then exit. > > -- > > Regards, > Hank Arnold > Microsoft MVP > Windows Server - Directory Services >
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