[dba-Tech] Terminal Server Default printer.

If you are using login scripts you could use something like
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
        WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection printerUNC
or
        WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter PrinterUNC
where PrinterUNC "\\Server\Printername"

Long example for setting printers by user group membership

http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=1028&ScriptType=vbscript

Erwin Craps - IT Helps wrote:

> 
>When I login to a Terminal server (2K) it automaticly add my local pc's
>printers so I can print localy.
>This is a good thing, but it also reset the default printer to my local
>printer.
>When disconnecting (logging off) from the Terminal server is deleted my
>local printer from the server, which he suposed to do but then it put
>the last installed driver/printer to the default instead of the original
>default.
> 
>This is not really a problem when login on as a regular user but when I
>logon as administrator.
>Because the administrator is already logged on the main console and runs
>Access applications to generate Excel files.
>So every time I log on/off as administrator in Terminal server, my
>default printer is changed from Laserjet 2200 to the Dymo labelprinter
>(the last driver I installed).
>Ofcourse when it generate an excel file it fails on the margins whom are
>changed in Excel because the Dymo printer has only label format and not
>A4.
> 
>I tried to work around to install a second copy of the Laserjet 2200,
>but this does not help. It still picks the dymo as default. Maybe
>because its the first printer or maybe because its the last driver I
>installed.
> 
>Turning off use printers in the TS profile does help, but then I can not
>print localy.
> 
>Is there a way to turn off the change of default printer when login on?
> 
> 
>Erwin
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