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#162217 - 2006-05-22 03:51 PM Install Local Printer
tylan tylan Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-11-17 Posts: 115 Loc: Johnstown, PA	Is there an easy way to install a local printer using kix? Right now, I'm just shelling to this command: RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /if /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf /r "file:" /m "Epson LQ-1000" /b "Epson LQ-1000" /Y /q However, printui.dll installs the printer regardless of it existing or not. I see that as wasting time during the logon. I'd be satisfied even w/ a simple IF..ENDIF to make that only run one time. Ideas?
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#162218 - 2006-05-22 04:15 PM Re: Install Local Printer
Björn Björn Korg Regular Registered: 2005-12-07 Posts: 953 Loc: Stockholm, Sweden.	Hi. Installing a local printer depends first of that the user had administrator-rights on the machine - not to fond of that idea. Second - Wouldn't onsite-personell be able to do this first of when delivering the printer? If your users are administrators (or have eqal rights as one), there is prolly some nice way of doing this. First idea that popped into my mind was to have the printer connected by the user, and when connected, added to a group, and with a simple if ingroup-statement do this after asking the user if the printer is correctly connected.. but.. somehow I can smell alot of failures here. _________________________ as long as it works - why fix it? If it doesn't work - kix-it!
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#162219 - 2006-05-22 04:30 PM Re: Install Local Printer
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	When you install a local printer, it will put it in the registry. You could look in the reg to see if it is installed. There are several UDFs posted that can install local printers and some that will enum printers too. _________________________ 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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#162220 - 2006-05-22 04:45 PM Re: Install Local Printer
tylan tylan Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-11-17 Posts: 115 Loc: Johnstown, PA	I'm not trying to install a "REAL" printer. I'm installing a file printer for an application. Nothing really prints to it, rather it's just used for generating output. Much like a PDF printer. Les - good idea. I can just query the registry to see if it exists.
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#162221 - 2006-05-22 04:47 PM Re: Install Local Printer
Björn Björn Korg Regular Registered: 2005-12-07 Posts: 953 Loc: Stockholm, Sweden.	ooooh. lol. Well then, Les hit the spot. And like he says there's plenty of capable udf's here. _________________________ as long as it works - why fix it? If it doesn't work - kix-it!
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#162222 - 2006-05-22 05:01 PM Re: Install Local Printer
tylan tylan Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-11-17 Posts: 115 Loc: Johnstown, PA	PrinterExist UDF looks great. Sometimes I wonder why I ask questions on this BB, when I should have just looked at the UDFs first. BTW - - Oddly enough a person w/ only "USER" level permissions seems to be able to install the EPSON LQ-1000 file printer. I'm guessing it's because they aren't REALLY adding new hardware.
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#162223 - 2006-05-23 10:27 AM Re: Install Local Printer
Björn Björn Korg Regular Registered: 2005-12-07 Posts: 953 Loc: Stockholm, Sweden.	Now that's interesting indeed. perhaps anyone with greater experience can answer why that is so. _________________________ as long as it works - why fix it? If it doesn't work - kix-it!
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#162224 - 2006-05-23 11:04 AM Re: Install Local Printer
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11631 Loc: CA	Well I believe that on XP you must have Admin or Power User rights and Load/Unload driver rights to install a LOCAL printer, to install a Network printer may require the same rights on XP, but a normal user might be able to add a network printer on Windows 2000 If the drivers are already on the system then the file copy would not need to be completed only a connection which is typically in HKCU - Though I would think that on XP it still "should" fail, but would probably work just fine on 2000
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#162225 - 2006-05-23 05:37 PM Re: Install Local Printer
tylan tylan Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-11-17 Posts: 115 Loc: Johnstown, PA	I SWEAR that it worked yesterday. I tried at some workstations today, and it wouldn't install the file printer. I ended up putting a "shell" statement to call a batch file as another user. Is there a way to make the "shell" command wait until the batch file is finished before proceeding w/ the script?
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