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Barry
3-3-05, 03:08 PM
We use Windows 98 and Windows XP as our user workstations. On each, users are setup under profiles. On Win98, only have to setup the printers once, as the printer setup is available to all user profiles. With WinXP, we find it necessary to login as each individual user and then setup printers. Is it possible to setup the printers once and have this available for all users?

These printers are networked and are not attached to individual work stations.

Thanks much. :confused:
jschein
3-3-05, 03:10 PM
If you install a printer as an admin in XP, it should be available to ALL users. The only exception is you must log in as the user, open your printers panel and set that printer as the default printer.
Barry
3-3-05, 04:26 PM
Tried that, but when the user logs on, there are no printers in the printer window, necessitating going through the install process.
jschein
3-3-05, 04:31 PM
Sounds very strange... Oh, unless you are talking about a "Network" printer instead of a local printer?
IanS
3-3-05, 04:56 PM
Sounds very strange... Oh, unless you are talking about a "Network" printer instead of a local printer?
Hmm....originally...
These printers are networked and are not attached to individual work stations

That is the case - networked and not local.
jschein
3-3-05, 06:11 PM
LMAO... Sorry for the oversight. Thanks IanS.

For networked printers, the only thing you can do if running server is setup printing scripts. OR... if the users do NOT have any local printers, you can install the printer locally to the machine on LPT1. Then create yourself a .bat file and put it in the all users startup folder.

Create a .bat file and put this in it:

net use ltp1 \\computersharename\printersharename persistent:no <hit enter>

Now save it... ( lpt1 is LPT1 )

i.e. net use lpt1 \\server\hp4000 persistent:no

Now when any user logs in, the printer you have installed for lpt1 now goes to the network printer.

If they do have a local printer, just install that network printer on the machine under lpt2 and change the .bat file accordingly.

Sorry for my misreadiung of local or network printer.