I use Group Policy Preferences under: User Configuration | Preferences | Control Panel Settings | Printers. From here I add a shared printer which has already been created on a Print Server. I've also use IP instead of shared. Almost all of our printers are defined on print servers, since soon we'll be using a product called Equitrac to manage printing, and print servers or IP printing is required for that. Just be sure your print server has a 32-bit driver for your XP clients. And don't forget to associated the GPO with the applicable OU. I've forgotten to do that in the past. Sorry I cannot help with USB method, though, since we don't use that here.
>>> Kelli Sterley <[email protected]> 1/31/2011 9:26 AM >>> Tom - what does your policy settings look like? I am also trying to push network printers to xp using a GP but it is not working either. Kelli On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: When you write local, do you mean connected via USB or IP? I push printers to XP via GP, but all printers here - desktop included - are IP based as we use meter readers. >>> James Hill <[email protected]> 1/30/2011 5:12 PM >>> Have you enabled GPP logging? There is a GPO to enable it for printing. Might be a good place to start. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 29 January 2011 1:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Policy Preferences installing a local printer I'm having some trouble with this. After some fits and starts it appears that all of my Windows 7 clients are receiving the local printer I want them to have, however, when they physically attach the printer, it installs itself with a new name. It's not a huge deal, but something I was hoping to avoid. I also had turned on the preference setting allowing users to install devices of the printer class, so I think that's what's actually happening when a user plugs in the printer for the first time, and it appears that this policy is only for Windows 7 (maybe Vista, but that's moot since we don't have Vista). My real issue is with Windows XP. No printers are installed. And yes, i do have the Group Policy extenstions for XP installed on these workstations. I have been successfully managing the local administrators group and user, and even went so far as to verify that the settings were intact on the XP machines. Is installing local printers only applicable to Vista and Windows 7? Any ideas, hints, guides? GoogleFu got me this far, but I haven't been able to find definitive answers to my XP question. Thanks, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
