Back before Group policy extensions and cool Microsoft management tools, if you wanted to map a printer there was only a handful of ways. If you wanted to easily map printers in a complex network arrangement you either wrote complex scripts or you could of used my Print Mapping Utility.
This would note the device name and offer the user a choice of printers to map. Once recorded in database it would map them that way always. Administrators could come and change those mappings. For fun there were also wildcards so computers starting with ROOM7-* for example would all get the same mapping profile.
Windows XP SP2 ended up ruining this software. All of a sudden microsoft was security concious and little API hacks int he background were no logner tolerated. Didn't matter, they release Group Policy Extensions in Windows 2008 and this tool became obsolete like so many others.
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