Printing Gurus, please help - What I need to do is install a network printer on my computer lab pc's so that ANYONE who logs in sees that printer...as it stands now, once I install a network printer, log out, and log back in as someone else, XP creates a new profile and the new profile doesn't see the network printer. I should mention our environment is XP clients logging in to a Samba domain - we don't have active directory options here. This script is what Microsoft says will work, but it doesn't: rundll32 printui.dll PrinUIEntry /ga /n\\printserver\printer Doesn't work at all. Nada. Zip. Bupkis. This script, which I found on a Windows networking site, DOES install the network printer, but only for the current user: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /in /n"\\printserver\printer" After running the above, I get my printer, it works great - but when I log out and back in as someone else, the printer is not visible. Surely there must be a way to install a network printer visible to anyone who logs on the machine? Any help is appreciated. Dave

I don't this there is. You could add the script to the All Users Startup folder. That may work. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

Placing the script in a logon batch file or the startup folder does work, but I was hoping to avoid logon scripts. Just one more thing that breaks. There really is NO way to install a network printer that ALL users get when they log in? That seems so bizarre.... Dave

I agree. Unless you create a Default Profile with the printer included. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

Don't know about Samba, but on my 2003 Server, the printer I have shared out automatically shows up on the other computers. Interestingly enough the name the printer is given on the clients has (Auto) appended to it. This is in a peer-to-peer network with XP PCs. Michael J