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    adding a printer to the network

    Can you find the MAC address of the jet direct board? I have just installed a 2200DN using HPs Add Printer Wizard (download from their site) - it allowed me to specify the MAC and IP address, then worked beautifully. We assigned our own IPs, as our address reservations in AD are different to...
  2. caymanjohn

    Assign Printers to OUs

    Thanks again for your interest - I used both the printerdriver script and the non printerdriverscript - both with the same results (we are purely Win2K). The machines already have these printer drivers, and have printed to them in the past. Problem is, when a user logs on, the old batch file...
  3. caymanjohn

    Assign Printers to OUs

    Thanks again - the user script also errors. In any case, we don't care who logs on at the machine - if it's the corner of room 21, we want their default to be PRINTER21A, with 2 other room 21 printers available. Could the file not found error refer to the actual printer name (which is...
  4. caymanjohn

    Assign Printers to OUs

    Thanks for your reply. Yes - the script runs fine if I browse, find it and run it! OF course, this is only after a user has logged on - the error appears during the "Running Startup Scripts" dialogue box when a machine starts up. Are you thinking that the user, not the machine, needs...
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    Assign Printers to OUs

    I noted a thread about applying scripts to set printers in AD I am in a school with 2k in a number of rooms, each with 3 printers. This is the script I use for 1 OU (a part of ROOM21 OU) 'Vb script to add printers via login script Set WshNetwork =...
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