Default printer keeps changing

[bryanblc]

I have a user who keeps having her default printer randomly changing at boot up. It may not change everyday, but it does it quite often. I am not pushing printers out thru active directory, but the print server is windowns 2000. Is there anyway in windows 2000 professional to keep this from happening. A registry hack, or something.
Thanks.

 

[bcastner]

. Is the user also using Terminal Services? Please advise.

. Add to the logon script for the user:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\printserver\printername /q
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\printserver\printername /y /q

. If you want to use the registry instead:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q252388

 

[bryanblc]

The person does not use Terminal Services. To have a log on script for this user would force me to create an organizational unit just for her. I would like to avoid this. Is there anything I can do at the client level?
Thanks.

 

[bcastner]

You could call the script with Scheduled Tasks, scheduled time "at Login"

 

[bryanblc]

I actually just came up with a solution. I am going to put a .bat file in the startup file on the computer and have it set the default at logon.
Thanks for the help.

 

[bcastner]

Question: do you also have Novell Netware running? If so, changing the default printer is a known NDPS issue, and suggests a client update.

 

[bryanblc]

Interesting that you ask about Novell. I just finished migrating the network from Novell to Windows. The clients are striped of all the Novell client software and I have removed IPX.

 

[bcastner]

OK, just checking.

Best,
Bill Castner

 

[brazilhills]

I have a similar situation with user's default printers changing randomly. We are in a Citrix environment, actually Metaframe XP 1.0 FR 3 i think. Our print server is just Windows 2000 server, not a Terminal Server.
99% of our clients connect via ICA devices, wyse winterminals.
We have our print server imported into CMC, users have global groups assigned to them that have rights to the printers via CMC.
We are still a NT 4.0 domain, not on Active Directory.
If anyone can help with this that would be great!