[THIN] Re: Setting up network Printers on Windows 2003 Terminal Server issue
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:22:45 +0100
Comments inline...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Malczewski
> Sent: 26 July 2004 14:48
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Setting up network Printers on Windows
> 2003 Terminal Server issue
>
> The Kix code is simple enough, but you have to have Kix
> installed everywhere to use it..
No you don't.
I always call it from the NETLOGON share, where the scripts actually
are.
For more bandwidth challenged scenarios, you can cache the executable
locally.
For NT platforms onwards, there is no install - it's just a single
executable.
> VBS is built into the OS as
> long as you're using 98 (IIRC) or later...
That's disengenous, again.
vbscript support is not built into the *OS* it's part of the WSH /
browser component.
> To check membership with VBS (and add the printer if the user
> is a member), this would be the code (lines two and three are
> the membership checking
> lines):
>
> Set WshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
> Set oGroup =
> GetObject("LDAP://CN=<GROUPNAME>,CN=Users,DC=<DOMAIN>,DC=<TLD>")
> mem =
> oGroup.IsMember("LDAP://CN=<USERNAME>,OU=<OU>,DC=<DOMAIN>,DC=<
> DOMAIN>")
> If (mem = True) Then
> WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection
> "\\<servername>\<printername>"
> WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter
> "\\<servername>\<printername>" End If
What would you do were it nested group membership...
What would you do if you were querying group membership numerous times
within a login script...
Let's face it, for *this* type of activity (ie conditional logic based
on group membership), it's unwieldly.
Neil
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