Hi hope someone can help.
We have a win 2008 based network with clients running vista, I have added a new printer to the network but do not know how to allocate it to the pc's. this is a school network which was set up by a company, my experience is in maintaining a RM system and I do not know much about the other network. Can someone give me detailed instuctions on how to allocate this printer, it works fine from the server.
Regards
Ray

Hi Raye.

How do you want them allocated - the same printer on all workstations, per workstation based on OU or per user based on group membership? Either way, I'd do it through a logon script (using VBScript). I can post some code to do that if you need it.

Dave

Hi Dave
I want to allocate the printer to teachers only so they can print to it from any computer. What I have found today is that the printer drivers where updated on the server however this update has not happened on the computers therefore there are two different drivers. I have tried deleteing printer and adding printer while logged on as a member of teacher group, but it still loads the printer with a different driver.
The printer was added to these users when they were set up so I take it that the profile is just loading with the old drivers. hope this makes sense.
regards
ray

Do you use logon scripts for users? The easiest thing to do is use a VBScript when they logon to check if they are a member of a 'Teachers' or 'Staff' group and install the printer on the fly.

Dave

Hi Dave
Yes i think it is logon scripts.
i would not know where to find them or what to do with them. i really do not know very much about doing things on this network. The RM network I work with has front end consols for carrying out tasks which makes it easier.
If you could give me further direction I would appreciate it.
regards
ray

Assuming you are using vbscript login scripts then you can use this code to map printers based on group membership: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/it-it/bf160908-93e3-484c-944f-1c95004c5498

There will be a sysvol share on the Windows 2008 server that will contain any logon scripts (in \\<server>\sysvol\<domain>\scripts) and you can specify which to use in the user properties in Active Directory.

If you already have a logon script then just add the code. If not, create a new Notepad document, copy and paste the code, save it as teachers.vbs in the scripts folder and then set that as the logon script in Active Directory.

If you're using RM CC3 or CC4 then yes, this is all so much easier with the management console

Dave
have sorted it out, found that the driver version on the server did not match the one on the pc, and seeing that the one on the pc is loaded from an image this did not update. So I reinstalled old driver back on server and everything is working ok now.
Thanks for all your help,time and effort in my posting.
Regards
Ray

You're welcome, Ray. Glad you have it working now.