www.computerperformance.co.uk has really good write ups on adding/deleting printers and setting the default via the vb script.
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Printer Logon Scripts I wonder if this info would help http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5030819.html I have use these for local machine statup scripts From: René de Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Printer Logon Scripts I can set it allright thats easy enough in vbscript with SetDefaultPrinter, unfortunately theres no GetDefaultprinter From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer Logon Scripts I find it easy enough to set the default printer with a bit of batch rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n"\\PRINTSERVER\PRINTER" 2008/9/16 René de Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This I found also, do you also have something to get the default printer? I looked on google and found a script that looked at the registry, but that didn't work. Looked like the registry didn't store it there. Thanks René -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer Logon Scripts If you need to do it with CMD scripts I can't help. This is how I do it with .vbs login scripts (beware line wrappage): dim network, networkPrinters, portNumber, printerName, i set networkPrinters = network.EnumPrinterConnections for i = 0 to networkPrinters.count - 1 step 2 portNumber = networkPrinters.item (i) printerName = networkPrinters.item (i + 1) select case printerName case "\\server\printer1" network.RemovePrinterConnection "\\server\printer1", true, true case "\\server\printer2" network.RemovePrinterConnection "\\server\printer2", true, true end select next Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to drop all but a few printers, then add my own new ones. > > Anyone know how to enumerate all the installed printers, and then I > could loop those except the few I want to go through the > RemovePrinterConnection Method. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ *** The information in this e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender by return e-mail delete this e-mail and refrain from any disclosure or action based on the information. *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ _____ *** The information in this e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender by return e-mail delete this e-mail and refrain from any disclosure or action based on the information. *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
