Group policy Issue George Spiro <dsl55dsl[ at ]gmail.com> 10/22/2008 9:13:45 PM Hello, Wondering if someone could help me. I am having trouble with some new workstations I am deploying and using a group policy / login script. The problem is that I get a error that the print spooler stops and says that my script is incorrect. I did notice that if I open the command prompt and type Cscript its then starts working. Could someone tell me why is this not working by default? This is the script: Dim multiPrinter, UNCpath1, UNCpath2 UNCpath1 = "\\SRV2\A2CU01P" UNCpath2 = "\\SRV2\C6800PCL" UNCpath3 = "\\SRV2\A2CU03P" Set multiPrinter = CreateObject("WScript.Network") multiPrinter.AddWindowsPrinterConnection UNCpath1 multiPrinter.AddWindowsPrinterConnection UNCpath2 multiPrinter.AddWindowsPrinterConnection UNCpath3 WScript.Quit ' End of example VBScript Thank you for your help, George.

RE: Group policy Issue James Yeomans BSc, MCSE 10/23/2008 4:18:01 PM Hi, you would be best to add printers using the con2prt.exe utility. This is a very simple utility to use via logon script and is the best way i have found of mapping printers. See: http://www.justaskjames.co.uk/default.asp?link=107 James. -- James Yeomans, BSc, MCSE Ask me directly at: http://www.justaskjames.co.uk "George Spiro" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > > Wondering if someone could help me. I am having trouble with some new > workstations I am deploying and using a group policy / login script. The > problem is that I get a error that the print spooler stops and says that > my script is incorrect. I did notice that if I open the command prompt > and type Cscript its then starts working. Could someone tell me why is > this not working by default? > > This is the script: > > Dim multiPrinter, UNCpath1, UNCpath2 > UNCpath1 = "\\SRV2\A2CU01P" > UNCpath2 = "\\SRV2\C6800PCL" > UNCpath3 = "\\SRV2\A2CU03P" > Set multiPrinter = CreateObject("WScript.Network") > multiPrinter.AddWindowsPrinterConnection UNCpath1 > multiPrinter.AddWindowsPrinterConnection UNCpath2 > multiPrinter.AddWindowsPrinterConnection UNCpath3 > WScript.Quit > ' End of example VBScript > > Thank you for your help, > > George. >

Re: Group policy Issue George Spiro <_[ at ]_.com> 10/23/2008 5:09:59 PM My script is fine. I just need to understand why I need to type cscript for the first time on the workstation for it to work. Also find it a waste to deploy another application to do something that windows does out of the box. James Yeomans BSc wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi, you would be best to add printers using the con2prt.exe utility. This is > a very simple utility to use via logon script and is the best way i have > found of mapping printers. See: > http://www.justaskjames.co.uk/default.asp?link=107 > James. >

Re: Group policy Issue James Yeomans BSc, MCSE 10/24/2008 1:22:00 PM Hi George I understand what you're saying, however con2prt.exe is a free microsoft utility that sits on the server and is called from the logon scrips. There's nothing to actualy install and its completely transparent. With regards to cscript, its a script host and needs initializing before a script can run: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/begin/ss1006.mspx Sometimes the way you want to do things isn't the best way of doing them. James. -- James Yeomans, BSc, MCSE Ask me directly at: http://www.justaskjames.co.uk "George Spiro" wrote: [Quoted Text] > My script is fine. I just need to understand why I need to type cscript > for the first time on the workstation for it to work. > > Also find it a waste to deploy another application to do something that > windows does out of the box. > > James Yeomans BSc wrote: > > Hi, you would be best to add printers using the con2prt.exe utility. This is > > a very simple utility to use via logon script and is the best way i have > > found of mapping printers. See: > > http://www.justaskjames.co.uk/default.asp?link=107 > > James. > > >