Hi All, I have a 2k3 srever with AD running and about 30 clients. I would like it to that all of the networked printers are automatically installed on the users computers without me having to go to everyone of them and install them automatically. I've looked through group policy and cant find anything obvious. I'm not to sure about the publishing of printers in the directory, but to my understanding it only publishes them so that they can be seen by computers attached to the AD and users would have to go through and select printers. I would like the printers just to appear in their printer selection on the local computer when they go to print. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Hi, I might be proved wrong, but I think that this is a per user setting, Each user should be able to add printer & select one that they want, & it then installs the drivers then, shouldn't need an Admin to carryout this one.

I just ran through this myself. Your logon.bat script w/the resource kit installed is the way to go. I created security groups in the AD to group users based on proximity to the printers. Then use ifmember.exe (resource kit) to assign printers based on the group they are in. IE: ifmember.exe YOURDOMAIN\YOURGROUP if not errorlevel 1 goto EndYOURGROUP ::First delete the printer to be neat and tidy rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dl /n "HP 4200 PCL" /q ::Then you can add the printer with the correct info rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "HP 4200 PCL" /u /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf /r "IP_172.16.2.2" /m "HP Laserjet 4000 Series PCL" /z /q ::Then assign the printer you just added to be the default rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "HP 4200 PCL" /q :EndNursery I have all the printers set up with JetDirect but you can look here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;189105 to get the syntax for local and networked printers best of luck!