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If a regular user has added a printer by going to a share \\share and then right clicked on a printer and then clicked 'connect', how can that be removed by an administrator?

I have tried prnmngr.vbs and rundll32 commands but they do not affect printers added in this way. Is there a way that they can be removed via commandline without the use of a login/logoff script?

This is a Windows XP machine in a server 2003 domain.

John Gardeniers
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I've had great luck with 

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /q /n\\Server_Name\Share_name
Nixphoe
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Sometimes, the printui.dll method does not work - especially if the printer queue is no longer available on the server or currently not accessible. To remove client-connected printers in these cases, you might consider just deleting the appropriate values from the HKCU\Printers\Connections regkey.

the-wabbit
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  • Interesting, I've only had issues with removing printers with out a printer queue with *cscript %systemroot%\system32\prnmngr.vbs -d -p "\\server_name\share_name"*. After I found the printui.dll one, I haven't had an issue since. Good key to know however – Nixphoe Jun 16 '11 at 21:40