Quick question about print servers

Just reading over the section on print servers in the MS press book for 290. I know you're supposed to set up a logical printer on the server to which all the clients point their printers. Seems like if you had a few hundred clients it would be a pain to add printers on all the clients still. Is there a way to "publish" a printer to all the clients or is manual installation on the client the only way?

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ipchain

You can use a logon script to automatically 'publish' it to all of your clients. Take a look at this link -> http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/LogonScript_Printer_Method.htm

Regards,

IP

JayrodEF

thanks, that's exaclty what I was lookin' for.

newbiext

This might be off topic, but i remember seeing a deploy printers option in Group Policy in Windows 2003 Server R2.

Smallguy

newbiext wrote:

This might be off topic, but i remember seeing a deploy printers option in Group Policy in Windows 2003 Server R2.

there is an option when adding a local printer to make it available in AD

CoryS

I know that people also use "pushprinterconnection.exe" for deploying printers as well which is a Windows utility.

intelamdcpu

how about making a batch file, using a command net use lpt, then add it in GPO?