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How to force a use to select a printer
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Handle it in the logon script. You can identify something unique about the workstation; I would use the physical or MAC address of the network card using the native GETMAC.EXE utility of XP.
You can easily parse its output directly with a FIND included in a .bat command line, or export to a file and parse the file.
In any case, the second step would be to assign the default printer. Two thoughts here:
. You can assign this on a machine, not user level. See Bruce Sanderson MS-MVP's notes:
. A more detailed discussion of using PrintUI can be found in this Tek-Tip discussion: thread779-581142
You can easily parse its output directly with a FIND included in a .bat command line, or export to a file and parse the file.
In any case, the second step would be to assign the default printer. Two thoughts here:
. You can assign this on a machine, not user level. See Bruce Sanderson MS-MVP's notes:
. A more detailed discussion of using PrintUI can be found in this Tek-Tip discussion: thread779-581142
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