Easy printer login scripts without VB

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under Coding, Geeky, Hardware

Enigma MachineWhy does everyone use crazy custom VB script to assign printers?

You can do most anything with a regular batch file and XP's built-in prnmngr.vbs. I just had to remove 3 printers from an entire OU and have 3 new ones connected. Check out these batch file commands, and make it easy on yourself! (You can find more info on prnmngr.vbs here.)

To remove a network printer

cscript C:\WINDOWS\system32\prnmngr.vbs -d -p "\\server\printer share name"

To remove all connected printers on a workstation for a specific server

cscript C:\WINDOWS\system32\prnmngr.vbs -d -p "\\server\*"

note: specify the server, or local printers will be deleted also)

To add a network printer

cscript C:\WINDOWS\system32\prnmngr.vbs -ac -p "\\server\printer_share_name"

To set a printer as the default cscript C:\WINDOWS\system32\prnmngr.vbs -t -p "\\server\printer_share_name"

note: this will set a network printer as the default, don't use if the workstation has a local printer

Comments (6) | April 24th, 2006

6 Responses to “Easy printer login scripts without VB”

  1. AtariBoy Says:
    April 24, 2006 at 9:33 am

    Another Great post for the people who need it, google it up :)

  2. Ben Says:
    November 30, 2006 at 10:35 am

    This is great but does it do it for all user profiles on the workstation?

  3. The Technocrat Says:
    November 30, 2006 at 12:40 pm

    It will work on whatever users or machines (or combination thereof) the script is assigned to via Group Policy.

  4. Software Development Guide Says:
    October 20, 2007 at 1:17 am

    Software Development Guide…

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

  5. B_Billy Says:
    August 6, 2008 at 9:17 am

    Is there a way to delete printers that were created with the following line in a logon script?

    start \\server\printer

  6. go holiday Says:
    July 10, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    We checked whole internet to readsomething related to this field… Thank you very much

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