{"id":132,"date":"2010-03-01T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu:40006\/wlog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T19:50:17","slug":"using-the-printui-dll-to-set-up-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Using the Printui.dll to set up printers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying out the printui.dll method to set up the printers for active directory managed machines in the lab.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a stopgap measure until we install a newer version of windows server, since both 2003 R2 and 2008 have a print management system that should work with windows 7 clients.\u00a0 So far, I&#8217;ve found that the following command will install a printer on a windows 7 client without having to install the print driver beforehand:<\/p>\n<p><strong>rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry \/ga \/n\\\\Corman\\Mom2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This command should also install the printer for all users (i.e. by computer instead of by user).\u00a0 However, it looks like the printer only appears if the user already has a valid network connection to the print server.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t tried it on a windows xp client yet, so I&#8217;m interested to see what it will do in that case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying out the printui.dll method to set up the printers for active directory managed machines in the lab.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a stopgap measure until we install a newer version of windows server, since both 2003 R2 and 2008 have a print management system that should work with windows 7 clients.\u00a0 So far, I&#8217;ve found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,49,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}