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I found a script that will add a printer to a user's pc. I modified it so that you could add several at one time. The script works fine once it is on the pc that you want it run on, but the prompts come up for user input. I want it to be run on the remote pc but the input prompts come up on my pc so that this is invisible to the users. I am no good at scripting, especially on remote machines. Could soemone look at this script and tell me what I'm doing wrong??

 

' Printer1.vbs - Windows Logon Script.
' VBScript - Connect a printer with AddWindowsPrinterConnection
' Author Guy Thomas http://computerperformance.co.uk/
' Version 1.7 - June 2006
' Modified to add multiple printers and request server name and printer name
' Lino Torrez 05/02/07
' ------------------------------------------------------------'
Option Explicit
Dim num, i
num = InputBox("How many printers do you want to add?")

Dim objNetwork, strUNCPrinter1(20), server, printer (20)
server = Inputbox("Server?")
for i = 1 to num
Printer (i) = InputBox("Printer # " & i & " Name?")
 
strUNCPrinter1 (i) = "\\" & server & "\" & printer (i)
' Create a network object (not Environment or AD)
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
%HOST%objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection strUNCPrinter1 (i)

' Optional command to show where to look for your printer
 WScript.Echo "Printer " & printer (i) & " added"
Next
WScript.Quit

 

Thanks guys, any help would be appreciated.

This can't be done the way you're trying to do it.  The script runs entirely on the remote computer, so the prompts will appear there as well.  There's no way to have the script run remotely, but the dialogs appear locally.

The only way I could see doing it would be to accept a command line parameter and pass it along with the script.

Unfortunately this also can't be done remotely because printer connections are user-profile-specific.

Can I suggest using a logon script to do this?  Your script can be easily modified to run in a logon script.  Another alternative solution if you are running Windows 2000/XP/Vista Clients and a Windows 2003 R2 domain controller is to use the new Print Management tool.

We used to have batch files for printers & user groups that got groups of printers with batch files.
We just started putting a few of them into the remote scripts in VNCSCAN and they work fine.

Here's an example.
This adds a network printer to that PC and it shows up for all users.
You can substitute /ga with /gd to delete one.

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\servername\printersharename
net stop spooler
net start spooler

PS- You can add multiple printers this way too. Our transcription groups has a bunch of printers setup for each of their PCs. You can just put in multiple runndll32 lines.

Example
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\servername\printersharename1
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\servername\printersharename2
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\servername\printersharename3
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\servername\printersharename4
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\servername\printersharename5
net stop spooler
net start spooler

Thanks