[Samba] installing printer in a logon script

[Tarjei Huse]

Hi,
> >But it seems to me that Windows is simply ignoring /if /f flags, 
> >because it doesn't print any error (even with no /q) when I put some 
> >nonsense instead of the location of the ini file.
> 
> Well here we just have :
> 
> rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\server\printer
> 
> in a script called from the login script. It seems to work fine for 
> us except for the nice feature in XP SP1 that disables users from 
> installing printers - we haven't got round to pushing out a registry 
> hack to fix that yet, but before SP1 went on it worked.

Hi, would you mind posting the .reg file?
Tarjei

> 
> As for adding print drivers to the server, we use cupsaddsmb (as per 
> the Samba howtos).
> 
> So, we add a printer to cups, select the right PPD and put it in 
> /etc/cups/ppd, then run cupsaddsmb to install the drivers. Add the 
> rundll ... line to the login scripts, and next time a user logs in 
> they get the printer installed (subject to the point and print policy 
> in place).
> 
> This is with samba 2.2.8a-224 and cups 1.1.15-170 (current versions 
> for Suse Linux Openexchange server).
> 
> Simon
> 
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