I’ve already mentioned I work with many customers and servers. Everytime I install a new server that hosts printers I have to handwrite a loginscript that connects/maps the printers on the clients. So I made a template for that as well. There is only a few variables needed to change for it to rock. Check it out.
@echo off goto start :start : Set server name and default printer set server=ServerName set default=PrinterShareName1 :Set printer names, according to their share name. set printvar1=PrinterShareName1 set printvar2=PrinterShareName2 set printvar3=name set printvar4=name set printvar5=name set printvar6=name : Force to use other drivers than default set printvar1drv=/ia /f "\\servername\path_to_driver\driver.inf" set printvar2drv= set printvar3drv= set printvar4drv= set printvar5drv= set printvar6drv= : @ to enable, dont forget to set printvar : rem to disable set printer1=@ set printer2=@ set printer3=rem set printer4=rem set printer5=rem set printer6=rem :printer1 if exist "%appdata%\%printvar1%.log" goto printer2 %printer1% RunDll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry %printvar1drv% /in /Gw /q /n \\%server%\%printvar1% && echo %printvar1% klar >> "%appdata%\%printvar1%.log" && attrib +s +h "%appdata%\%printvar1%.log" RunDll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /Gw /q /n \\%server%\%default% /y goto printer2 :printer2 if exist "%appdata%\%printvar2%.log" goto printer3 %printer2% RunDll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry %printvar2drv% /in /Gw /q /n \\%server%\%printvar2% && echo %printvar2% klar >> "%appdata%\%printvar2%.log" && attrib +s +h "%appdata%\%printvar2%.log" goto printer3 :printer3 if exist "%appdata%\%printvar3%.log" goto printer4 %printer3% RunDll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry %printvar3drv% /in /Gw /q /n \\%server%\%printvar3% && echo %printvar3% klar >> "%appdata%\%printvar3%.log" && attrib +s +h "%appdata%\%printvar3%.log" goto printer4 :printer4 if exist "%appdata%\%printvar4%.log" goto printer5 %printer4% RunDll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry %printvar4drv% /in /Gw /q /n \\%server%\%printvar4% && echo %printvar4% klar >> "%appdata%\%printvar4%.log" && attrib +s +h "%appdata%\%printvar4%.log" goto printer5 :printer5 if exist "%appdata%\%printvar5%.log" goto printer6 %printer5% RunDll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry %printvar5drv% /in /Gw /q /n \\%server%\%printvar5% && echo %printvar5% klar >> "%appdata%\%printvar5%.log" && attrib +s +h "%appdata%\%printvar5%.log" goto printer6 :printer6 if exist "%appdata%\%printvar6%.log" goto exit %printer6% RunDll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry %printvar6drv% /in /Gw /q /n \\%server%\%printvar6% && echo %printvar6% klar >> "%appdata%\%printvar6%.log" && attrib +s +h "%appdata%\%printvar6%.log" goto exit :exit :eof exit