We have an SBS 2003 R1 domain controller, and a mixture of Windows 7 and XP (domain-joined) workstations.
There are 20 users, 20 PCs, and 5 printers.
Printer drivers for all 5 printers are already installed on each of the 20 workstations, however users have no printers available in their profile if they log on to a PC they have never used before (either leading to IT requests, or the user simply putting up with a loss of functionality if they use a different computer during a meeting in another office etc.)
There is only one server, so I am not sure how we can safely upgrade to SBS 2003 R2, as there is no other server to fall back on if something goes wrong during the upgrade. I would love to upgrade to R2, but I just don't see how I can safely proceed with only one server.
What options do we have for mapping printers at logon which don't involve having to upgrade the server from SBS 2003 -> SBS 2003 R2 ?
Edit:
All printers are shared from the same PC on the network.
I have numbered them for the purposes of this question:
\\server1\printer1
\\server1\printer2
\\server1\printer3
\\server1\printer4
I would like my solution to also:
delete all existing printers at logon before mapping these printers (we have some invalid print queues lingering in various user profiles on various PCs, which occasionally cause confusion)
ideally not display a command prompt window when users log on (even briefly)
