Adding Network Printers 1

[columbiavol]

I have installed two network printers. I have them set, in the PDC, as shared with "List in Directory" checked. In both the Local Computer group policy and the Default Domain Policy, I have the following enabled:

Allow printers to be published
Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory
Printer Browsing

When I go to a desktop and log in as the administrator and go to the Add Printer wizard, I can see a list of the printers published in the domain. However, if I log in as a regular user, I cannot see the list of published printers. I have a classroom with 14 computers and a network printer. I need to set it up so that the users can print to that network printer. Please give me some guidance.

 

[ljCharlie]

My guess is that you have not given domain users the permission to access those shared printers.

ljCharlie

 

[Jpoandl]

you may need to adjust the permissions for the shared printers (in ad) so that the users can "see" the printers.

(Find the shared printers in AD and right click them to see security)

Another way to do this is through a logon script. In a logon script the users wouldn't have to browse the domain to find the printers. The printers would just automatically be mapped for each user through the logon script.

Something like this should work for you:


On error Resume Next
Set oNetwork = CreateObject("wScript.Network")

' Map network drive
oNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "H:", "//London/LabShare"

' Map printer and set printer to default
oNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\London\Classprn"
oNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\London\Classprn"


You can open notepad and copy the above code to notepad. When you save, save as logon.vbs

The configure each user profile to use logon.vbs logon script in AD Users and Computers.

Then copy the logon.vbs to \\domaincontroller\netlogon directory.

-hope this helps...


Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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