"Auto" added printers

We recently installed a Windows Server 2003 Doman.
Printers installed and shared from the file and print
server are "auto" added to clients profiles, meaning these
printers are automatically installed for some domain
users. This also appears to happen when XP clients are
sharing their local printers. When this happens, the
term "Auto" is appended to the beginning of the printer
name in the Printers of the user profile. Can someone
point me to the correct knowledgebase article that
describes this feature so I can understand this behavior
and control it. THANKS!!!!!

I believe this will happen if the printer is published in AD. I think from the client you can turn it off by clicking Tools, Folder Options, View Tab and uncheck Automatically search for network folders and printers. There may be a group policy you can set for this as well but I don't know where it is. Could also script it in vb and use the vb script as a computer startup script in a GPO if you can find the registry setting associated with this.

Bradley Fox
Sr. Network Administrator
MCSE - W2K

>>> Ken<(E-Mail Removed)> 07/27/04 09:43AM >>>
We recently installed a Windows Server 2003 Doman.
Printers installed and shared from the file and print
server are "auto" added to clients profiles, meaning these
printers are automatically installed for some domain
users. This also appears to happen when XP clients are
sharing their local printers. When this happens, the
term "Auto" is appended to the beginning of the printer
name in the Printers of the user profile. Can someone
point me to the correct knowledgebase article that
describes this feature so I can understand this behavior
and control it. THANKS!!!!!

See KB article 320138 . Looks like you can disable this through a GPO.

Bradley Fox
Sr. Network Administrator
MCSE - W2K

>>> Ken<(E-Mail Removed)> 07/27/04 09:43AM >>>
We recently installed a Windows Server 2003 Doman.
Printers installed and shared from the file and print
server are "auto" added to clients profiles, meaning these
printers are automatically installed for some domain
users. This also appears to happen when XP clients are
sharing their local printers. When this happens, the
term "Auto" is appended to the beginning of the printer
name in the Printers of the user profile. Can someone
point me to the correct knowledgebase article that
describes this feature so I can understand this behavior
and control it. THANKS!!!!!

Thanks for the information. I did knowledge base searches
but came up empty.

k

>-----Original Message-----
>See KB article 320138 . Looks like you can disable this
through a GPO.
>
>Bradley Fox
>Sr. Network Administrator
>MCSE - W2K
>
>>>> Ken<(E-Mail Removed)> 07/27/04 09:43AM >>>
>We recently installed a Windows Server 2003 Doman.
>Printers installed and shared from the file and print
>server are "auto" added to clients profiles, meaning
these
>printers are automatically installed for some domain
>users. This also appears to happen when XP clients are
>sharing their local printers. When this happens, the
>term "Auto" is appended to the beginning of the printer
>name in the Printers of the user profile. Can someone
>point me to the correct knowledgebase article that
>describes this feature so I can understand this behavior
>and control it. THANKS!!!!!
>