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doc, not really most efficient...
looping the share is doable without any files.




Not sure what you're talking about there Jooel. I can pretty much gurantee you that the hundreds of thousands of Admins around the World sure the heck are not running around going through all these hoops/loops/special coding/special ACL junk.

Using Global groups for this task is the EASIEST method period. Can it be done other ways, sure as we see here in this crazy thread, but find me one question on any test for Microsoft Networking that would even attempt to explain that you would do special coding to map a printer for the user..

I'm not a big fan of mapping a printer for a user automatically anyways. It's not rocket science.
Teach the user or have the help desk do it, it's not something that has to be done daily or even weekly.