I'm running a domain at a school. I'm having issues with printers in one specific class.
I've written a script that will add 4 printers to all machines in the class and set the relavent one as the default. Thats all cool.
The problem comes in that "somewhere" or "something" is also adding two other network printers to all the machines in the class. The other two that are added no longer exist on the server, so they show up as disconnected network printers.
I've checked through all the scripts that relate to printers, its definitly not coming from that.. Even went so far as to create another script to delete all network printers 5 minutes after login, and then readd just the 4 relavent ones to test.... Interesting thing there, if I try and delete all network printers using the adprintx.exe, it does not delete the 2 rogue printers, or even detect them as "connected".
I tried manually deleting the two rogue printers, which works awesome.. Tilll your relog, or restart the print spooler.. then they reappear.
This led me to beleive it was a GPO. This is also not the case. Checked every GPO, also disabled ALL GPO's just to make doubley sure. No luck there either.
It also cant be machine local pc related, as it is happening on all 40pc's in the class.
Any assistance/ideas would be awesome right about now.. Before I pull out what little hair I have left
I've written a script that will add 4 printers to all machines in the class and set the relavent one as the default. Thats all cool.
The problem comes in that "somewhere" or "something" is also adding two other network printers to all the machines in the class. The other two that are added no longer exist on the server, so they show up as disconnected network printers.
I've checked through all the scripts that relate to printers, its definitly not coming from that.. Even went so far as to create another script to delete all network printers 5 minutes after login, and then readd just the 4 relavent ones to test.... Interesting thing there, if I try and delete all network printers using the adprintx.exe, it does not delete the 2 rogue printers, or even detect them as "connected".
I tried manually deleting the two rogue printers, which works awesome.. Tilll your relog, or restart the print spooler.. then they reappear.
This led me to beleive it was a GPO. This is also not the case. Checked every GPO, also disabled ALL GPO's just to make doubley sure. No luck there either.
It also cant be machine local pc related, as it is happening on all 40pc's in the class.
Any assistance/ideas would be awesome right about now.. Before I pull out what little hair I have left