enjay Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 Our printers are allocated via the user configurations of per machine GPOs, so everyone gets the printers suitable to the room they're in. Grand. But... someone logs on in Room A and gets Printer A as expected; if whilst still logged on in Room A, they move to Room B and log on, they only have Printer A available and do not get Printer B. Our XP RMCC3 network didn't do this :-( Any way around this?
Michael Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Our printers are allocated via the user configurations of per machine GPOs It's not clear how exactly you're deploying your printers, however you should be doing it per machine and not per user at all. You'll then get the results you're looking for. If you open up Print Management, you'll be able to see clearly how your printers are deployed and change all GPOs to per machine.
Michael Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 Looking at your screenshots, the way you have your OUs setup looks perfect. Locations > College PCs > Geography, History etc... I presume (as I cannot tell) that you have moved the relevant Computer Objects into the correct OU, such as Geography, History etc... For every OU, you should create and link a separate GPO. On those GPOs, (in turn) navigate to Computer Config > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Printers Deploy the printer in exactly the same way, then remove any printer settings from under User Config > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Printers (what you currently have setup). Now when you logon to a computer in Geography you'll get printer A and when logging onto a computer in History you'll get printer B.
enjay Posted January 23, 2012 Author Posted January 23, 2012 And that will work when logged in to two different computers, yes?
Michael Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 Yes because computer A would be allocated printer A and computer B would be allocated printer B. The user themselves become irrelevant.
enjay Posted February 1, 2012 Author Posted February 1, 2012 On those GPOs, (in turn) navigate to Computer Config > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Printers I've been told that only works for local printers, not networked ones, as there is no user security available to allow the connection...
nicklec Posted February 2, 2012 Posted February 2, 2012 I've been told that only works for local printers, not networked ones, as there is no user security available to allow the connection... If you don't have 'everyone' allowed to print to the printer it will fail (we have Papercut managing printer security so we can); you can probably add privs to allow 'system' to connect instead...
enjay Posted February 2, 2012 Author Posted February 2, 2012 If you don't have 'everyone' allowed to print to the printer it will fail (we have Papercut managing printer security so we can); you can probably add privs to allow 'system' to connect instead... "Everyone" can print, and additionally staff can 'manage documents', so I'll be okay adding printers the way you describe, yes?
nicklec Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Yes you should be fine, if it does fail due to permissions there is a shockingly helpful event log describing what went wrong
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