I work at a university in which all students are given a laptop with
xphome(we are not going to put them on the domain) a am writing a script to
mapdrives and connect printers for them according to the course they are
currently in. I am able to map the drives using

Dim n As New IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshNetwork
n.MapNetworkDrive(letter & ":", Replace(connection, "username", username),
False, username & "@university.edu", pwd)

however the n.addwindowsprinterconnection(\\server\printer)
doesn't take credentials so all attempts to connect printers return access
denied.

So is there a way to connect printers from a server passing credentials

You could try connecting to the \\server\IPC$ share first.

Then when using the addwindowsprinterconnection, it will use the existing
credentials that were established to the IPC$ share.

FYI, IPC is InterProcess Communication.

Then when using the
"Dan" <Dan (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Thank you for your response
I tried that that is true when i connect to a share via \\server\ipc$ i can
pass credentials then can connect to the printer via \\server\printer and it
will use the existing connection. but when i script it to map the drive then
add the printer it doesn't use the connection even tried connecting then
scripting just the printer and that didn't work. i looked into the iis
printers directory they seem to be using an OLEinstall object to do this but
i can't find any documentation

"Jim Hughes" wrote:

Hi Dan,
I have the same problem. Did you find a solution for the XP home client?
Maybe you can help me any further?

Thanks in advance,

Zeff