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assign default printer based on computer's group membership

Asked by junior15 in Windows NT Networking

Tags: printer, default, group, computer, based

I have been looking through previously asked questions that are closely related to mine, but haven't been able to find a suitable answer.

Here is what I've got:

Windows 2000 Active Directory domain with OU's for each physical site.
Servers running Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server
Workstations running Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro
Login scripts running via GPO's

In one of my locations, I've got 5 printers being installed via the login script. The problem I've got is that I would like to setup the default printer based on the computer rather than the person because I have some people that login to multiple computers and I would like their default printer to be the one that is closest to whichever computer they login to.

So far, the solutions that I have rejected include the following:
--checking IP address - all the computers in the area are on the same subnet so I can't pick out computers based on IP
--based on computer names - while this is close, I would like to refrain from putting specific computer names in my scripts because then anytime a computer moves or I add a new one, I have to edit my scripts.

What I want to be able to do is have it based on group names. I have added the computers in question to a group in AD so if I could setup something in the login script to check to see if the computer was a member of this group, that would work. The only problem is that I don't know how to do this. I am using ifmember to determine if users are members of specific groups, but I need something for computers.

I am not the only administrator for this site and I also don't want to have to modify my script everytime I add or move computers so if anybody can suggest something that would work based on the computer's group membership, or if anybody could come up with another option that isn't computer specific, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Daniel

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assign default printer based on computer's group membership

Asked by junior15 in Windows NT Networking

Tags: printer, default, group, computer, based

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