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#140217 - 2005-05-24 06:19 PM Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
Huffinagle Huffinagle Getting the hang of it Registered: 2002-09-04 Posts: 75 Loc: McMinnville, OR, USA	Good Morning All, I am beginning to create a kix script for assigning printers to my users. I was wondering if anyone has done this based on geographical location. My network is setup were all computer names start with a department acronym. i.e. Finance = FI, Engineering = EN, etc. It would be neat if I could assign default printers based on the first two characters of a computer name. This would insure that all users logging into a department computer would have the closest printer mapped as the default. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks, Matt
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#140218 - 2005-05-24 06:34 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
maciep maciep Korg Regular Registered: 2002-06-14 Posts: 947 Loc: Pittsburgh	That can definitely be done. Just as a start you could do something like Code: if left(@wksta,2) = 'FI' ; Finance Printer endif And i know a lot of people base their printer mapping off of ini files, so you could step it up a notch and have an ini file like maybe Printers.ini Code: [FI] DefaultPrinter=TheFinancePrinter SecondaryPrinter=ABackupPrinterMaybe [EN] DefaultPrinter=TheEngineeringPrinter SecondaryPrinter=TheirBackupPrinter And then in your script something like Code: $dept = left(@wksta,2) $defPrinter = readprofilestring("PathToIni",$dept,"DefaultPrinter") $secPrinter = readprofilestring("PathToIni",$dept,"SecondaryPrinter") I'm sure others here can provide more (better?) suggestions...
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#140219 - 2005-05-24 07:05 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Is there a particular reason why you would post a starters question in the General Discussions forum? _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#140220 - 2005-05-24 07:12 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
Huffinagle Huffinagle Getting the hang of it Registered: 2002-09-04 Posts: 75 Loc: McMinnville, OR, USA	Quote: "Pedro, how do you feel about that one? That looks pretty sweet, that looks awesome, that script it's.... it's incredible....." I haven't used ini files before, but that looks great. I'll start chewing on it and see if I can make it work. THANKS!
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#140221 - 2005-05-24 07:14 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
Huffinagle Huffinagle Getting the hang of it Registered: 2002-09-04 Posts: 75 Loc: McMinnville, OR, USA	Yeah, all the nice people are answering my questions. But, I can move it if needed.
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#140222 - 2005-05-24 07:37 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	The same nice people answer questions in the "Starters" forum too. The Starters forum is a better fit and we prefer that basic KiX questions be posted there. It helps to keep them somewhat categorized for searching later. Thanks for understanding _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#140223 - 2005-05-24 08:02 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
Huffinagle Huffinagle Getting the hang of it Registered: 2002-09-04 Posts: 75 Loc: McMinnville, OR, USA	Quote: That can definitely be done. Just as a start you could do something like Code: if left(@wksta,2) = 'FI' ; Finance Printer endif And i know a lot of people base their printer mapping off of ini files, so you could step it up a notch and have an ini file like maybe Printers.ini Code: [FI] DefaultPrinter=TheFinancePrinter SecondaryPrinter=ABackupPrinterMaybe [EN] DefaultPrinter=TheEngineeringPrinter SecondaryPrinter=TheirBackupPrinter And then in your script something like Code: $dept = left(@wksta,2) $defPrinter = readprofilestring("PathToIni",$dept,"DefaultPrinter") $secPrinter = readprofilestring("PathToIni",$dept,"SecondaryPrinter") I'm sure others here can provide more (better?) suggestions... maciep, I have a question about your script: You identify $defPrinter as readprofilestring("PathToIni",$dept,"DefaultPrinter"). Would I then use the $defPrinter variable like this: Code: ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("$defPrinter")
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#140224 - 2005-05-24 08:26 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
maciep maciep Korg Regular Registered: 2002-06-14 Posts: 947 Loc: Pittsburgh	Yes if the value in your ini file is the sharename of the queue (I think). But honestly, i haven't done much (if anything) with adding printer connections, so maybe someone more versed in the area could field this one. I do know, however, that you do not need the quotes around variable. And in general, using variables in strings is considered poor coding technique.
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#140225 - 2005-05-24 08:56 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
Huffinagle Huffinagle Getting the hang of it Registered: 2002-09-04 Posts: 75 Loc: McMinnville, OR, USA	Okay.... I created a script that works. Please look it over and let me know if I need to modify how the script runs. User logs in and runs logon.kix which makes the following call: Code: CALL @SCRIPTDIR+'\printers.kix' ; This script assigns printers to client logon profiles. The contents of printers.kix runs: Code: $dept = left(@wksta,2) $1stPrinter = readprofilestring("\\data\netlogon\printers.ini",$dept,"1stPrinter") $2ndPrinter = readprofilestring("\\data\netlogon\printers.ini",$dept,"2ndPrinter") $3ndPrinter = readprofilestring("\\data\netlogon\printers.ini",$dept,"3ndPrinter") IF AddPrinterConnection ($1stPrinter) = 0 ? "Added printer connection...." ENDIF Which parses the printers.ini: Code: [AB] 1stPrinter=\\DATA\FDAMBLJ 2NDPRINTER=\\DATA\FDADMINLJ 3RDPRINTER=\\DATA\FDCOLORLJ [AQ] 1STPRINTER=\\DATA\AQOFFICELJ 2NDPRINTER=\\DATA\AQCOLORLJ [BU] [CC] 1STPRINTER=\\DATA\CCADMINLJ 2NDPRINTER=\\DATA\CCOFFICELJ etc......... My end result being: Printers are added to computers according to their departments. If the printer exists, the process is aborted. Any corrections are appreciated. Thanks, Matt Edited by Huffinagle (2005-05-24 11:02 PM)
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#140226 - 2005-05-24 09:10 PM Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location
maciep maciep Korg Regular Registered: 2002-06-14 Posts: 947 Loc: Pittsburgh	The script you posted is still using that $defPrinter variable from my earlier example, but it looks like you should be using $1stPrinter instead now, right?
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#140227 - 2005-05-24 10:45 PM

Re: Assigning Printers by Geographical Location

Huffinagle Offline

Getting the hang of it

Registered: 2002-09-04
Posts: 75
Loc: McMinnville, OR, USA

Thanks for catching that. Here's an updated Code:

Code:

 
$dept = left(@wksta,2)
$1stPrinter = readprofilestring("\\city1\netlogon\printers.ini",$dept,"1stPrinter")
$2ndPrinter = readprofilestring("\\city1\netlogon\printers.ini",$dept,"2ndPrinter")
$3ndPrinter = readprofilestring("\\city1\netlogon\printers.ini",$dept,"3ndPrinter")
IF AddPrinterConnection ($1stPrinter) = 0
	? "Added printer connection...."
ENDIF
IF AddPrinterConnection ($2ndPrinter) = 0
	? "Added printer connection...."
ENDIF
IF AddPrinterConnection ($3rdPrinter) = 0
	? "Added printer connection...."
ENDIF

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