How to add printers with no user interaction in WindowsView products that this article applies to.Article ID:189105Last Review:January 27, 2005Revision:5.1This article was previously published under Q189105SUMMARY Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 provide the ability to
install a printer using a command line. This is particularly useful when you
add or remove a printer from a group of users using a login script or a
scheduled event. Although Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Zero
Administration Kit (ZAK) contains tools such as Con2prt.exe, the Con2prt.exe
tool provides the ability to add or delete only network printers. You can also
modify and delete local printers using Windows 2000. The result is that an
administrator can control all aspects of a user's ability to print by having
users run a batch file or logon script. NOTE: Using this command in a login script or a client-launched batch
file requires the client computer to be running Windows 2000 or Windows Server
2003. Because the login script runs on the client computer, a Windows NT 4.0
client is unable to process the command. In addition, these commands
can be run from an administrator's workstation or from a server so that the
printers are push-installed to the client computers without having to go to the
actual computer.