Okay.
So the companion preference area to drive mappings are printer mappings and GP preferences has the ability
to do both per computer and per user printer mappings.
And this is found under preferences backslash control panel settings, backslash printers and either
user configuration or computer configuration.
So what you can do are essentially create three different types of printers.
You can do shared printers, which are the traditional UMC based print server approach where the server
is shared by a print server.
I'm sorry, the printer is shared by a print server.
This one's actually not available on the computer side, but it is available per user.
You can do TCP IP printer connections.
So if you're just going directly to the printer, you're not going through a print server, then there's
support for that feature.
And then there's support for local for mapping local printers.
So if every one of your users in a particular department, let's say it's the finance department, has
a local printer, then you can actually create the mapping for them using GP preferences.
And what GP preferences can do for you as it handles that mapping of the printer, making the printer
the default or just connecting to it in your devices and printers control panel applet.
And it can also do the installation of the drivers or at least the path to the drivers so that your
user will have access to the drivers required to actually use that particular printer.
So again, looking at the GP preferences printer types, you've got TCP IP printers and you'll see here
that it shows an options for the IP address of the printer, the name the printer path to the drivers.
So that printer path is an actual USC path to the drivers for this printer and some location in comment.
And you can also set port options.
And again, using the comment tab, you can use item level targeting to map printers just as well as
you can drives.
Shared printers.
You just enter in the share path.
You tell it if you want this to be the default printer and away you go.
There's not much to this one.
And then local printer, you tell it what port the printer is attached to.
Again, you can provide a printer path to the drivers and you can give it a name and it will appear
in the user's printer connections.
So let's with that little introduction, let's dive in and create some printers.