Printer Managment

[Ed]

I am trying to use the pushconnections.exe via group policy so I can use
group policy to assign printers. I have followed the steps outlined in the ms
article. I also tried adding the pushconnections.exe to the startup script
instead of the logon script inside of group policy but no luck. I can add the
printers to group policy via the print manager etc with no issue. Am I
missing something is there a trick to getting this to work. I dont see
anyerrors in the event etc. Thanks

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Do you have Server 2008 domain controllers or are you using the schema from
Server 2003 R2?

Are you adding user connections or machine connections?


If you are setting up machine connections (any one who logs onto the machine
gets the connection) the logon script needs to run in the machine context
rather than user context.

Add the -log switch initially, pushprinterconnections.exe does not generate
any event log entries.. If you do not get a log file, the exe is not
running.

I am assuming the print server is 32bit and the clients are 32bit XP.


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"Ed" wrote in message
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>I am trying to use the pushconnections.exe via group policy so I can use
> group policy to assign printers. I have followed the steps outlined in the
> ms
> article. I also tried adding the pushconnections.exe to the startup script
> instead of the logon script inside of group policy but no luck. I can add
> the
> printers to group policy via the print manager etc with no issue. Am I
> missing something is there a trick to getting this to work. I dont see
> anyerrors in the event etc. Thanks
>