IF the rooms are on separate subnets you could easily do this with Group Policy and Group Policy Preferences.
1. Set GPO to remove the ability for a user to add a printer. 2. Set GPP to map to the server printer queue based on the subnet the computer is currently in. 3. Set the GPP to "replace" and to remove when it no longer applies. That way when they logon in that room they will get the printers only for that room. When in a different room the printers that don't apply will be removed. If there isn't a different subnet per room you'll just need to use some other method to determine the current location. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2010 5:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print Server suggestions Tell me how security permissions could solve the following problem. I'm interested, it's academic now, but I'm still interested. Student schedule 8:00-8:50 Room A15 9:00-9:50 Room B12 9:50-10:50 Room C19 10:50-11:50 Room A12 11:50-12:30 Lunch 12:40-1:30 Room A16 1:40-2:30 Room A10 2:40-3:30 Room A08 Limit student's schedule to allow printing in the room specified for only the period specified. Multiply by 1200 students. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > When I worked in a high school, an advantage to not using a print server at > the time (NT 4 and Win 2000) was the fact that I could localize printing to > the room the computer is in very easily, by limiting which printers were > installed on the computer. To my knowledge, there isn't anyway to do that > with a Windows print server and printer sharing. Security permissions? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
