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Help with roaming profile problem

At my school, I have a student account that is used on 80+machines. I setup roaming profile, and change the profile to man to stop the students from changing things. The problem I am running into now is I cannot set a default printer, default homepage.

I have set a GPO to set the default homepage, and it works but the profile seems to be holding a different page when Internet explorer closes. It's the same scenario with the printers. i set a default printer, and it changes on reboot.

Now these computers are setup in different labs, with each lab having it's own printer for them to use. I think the problem is from the profile, but I do not know a way to configure it for each classroom. and because of the roaming profile anything I set gets deleted on reboot. I was thinking I would have to make some child ou's then script the printers.

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guess prior to objPrinter.SetDefaultPrinter it should not have a comment out '

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I understand the .MAN to .DAT change then reverse it after changes.

But I have 8 different labs with 8 ip printers. I would like to make it dummy proof, by only having the one printer on the computers in the lab. All these computers use the same login. Is there a way to do this?

This could work if I made different user name for each lab room. But change doesn't really go good around here. If it has to be done then it will, but hopefully there's a way around this
Just use a login script to map the printers.  You can put the users into "groups" and just force the script to run to the groups through group policy instead of a user login script.

errr I should say force the "different scripts" to run through different group policies.
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So I should then go with making a new user for each lab. I assume thats what you mean by "users"

right now it's just one user and 80 computers they use.
You can either copy the current profile to different profiles (which would allow you to set everything in each profile) and have 8 different profiles, just changing the user profile locations.

Or you can just use scripting which can be changed at any time very easily!  Printer moves to new machine takes you 45 seconds to change in script!
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Not good with scripts. Can you tell me a little of how this script works.

And I assume it's jsut made with notepad saved as all files with a .vbs extension?
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Never heard back from you. You were on the right track with this, just needed a little help with the follow through.

Thanks anyways