[Samba] adding printers from netlogon script

Andrew Gaffney agaffney at technaut.darktalker.net
Tue Dec 9 21:28:45 GMT 2003


Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> [Samba] adding printers from netlogon script
>> Andrew Gaffney agaffney at technaut.darktalker.net
>> Tue Dec 9 20:10:07 GMT 2003
>>
>>
>> While this doesn't relate specifically to Samba, I need to do this in 
>> a netlogon .bat file in a Samba domain. In my network, I have a 
>> printer hooked to a JetDirect so that it is a TCP/IP printer. Is there 
>> a way I can automatically have this printer mapped/added when the user 
>> is logged on?
>>
> 
> Test this command from a "DOS box":
> 
>    rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n 
> \\printerserver\printersharename
> 
> If it works, it can go into the logon script. (Of course "printersharename"
> needs to exist on "printerserver" and must have printer driver deposited on
> the server's [print$]-share for "point'n'print" download...). And:
> 
>    rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntriy /?
> 
> will show up a full "man page" (hehe...)
> 
> See also
> 
>    http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/man/printing.html#id2931140

Will this same method work to add a TCP/IP printer instead of a SMB printer?

-- 
Andrew Gaffney



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