Hi everyone. Our office has just put in a brand new printer. I've no idea how the old one was working, nobody does.
but anyways, we've got the drivers all setup on every client computer, but there's still an additional setup step. For EACH user on EACH computer, the user has to "connect" to the printer, by right clicking on it in the server shares and selecting connect. This isn't too complex, but it's a step too far for our office staff, andit's an inconvenience.
We have about 20 users sharing 7 machines in rotation, which makes about 140 times we'd have to manually connect the printer. on top of that, we're planning to add more of both, so doing it manually isn't going to work.I'm sure this is a problem facing small networks constantly, and i'm wondering what kind of solutions windows SBs 2011 has to offer. i#ve heard vague mentions here and there of using group policies to accomplish this auto connection, but i can't seem to find specifics that relate to 2011 (only to older versions, pointing to areas which are different now).
I remember doing this a long time ago for a debian/samba domain i setup once. My solution that time was to write a logon script to be run each time a user logs in, that would automatically connect to the printer. I've long since lost that though, and forgotten
how to do it. but if anyone has any advice in that regard, it would be appreciated.