Admin Tip #324: How to install a network printer only once for all users of the NT workstation.

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You have a shared workstations in a lab or library and you want all users of the workstation to have access to the same networked printer. Opps! You find that network printers definitions are stored in the user profiles. How do you install a network printer only once for all users of the NT workstation? You can't unless you cheat. The trick to the solution is that local printers are available to all users who login to the workstation. So How do you install a neetworked printer as a local printer?

This will point the "Local Port" to the networked Printer and all users that log into the workstation will have access to the printer because all "Local" printers are setup for All Users configuration.

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