Calling vbscript function from html button

Question

Don't be surprised if what I'm doing is completely wrong or if the solution is obvious.

<script type="text/vbscript">
    Function AddPrinter()
        Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
        objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\a2031slhsfile1\2031CAT-T113-HP4014dn"
        objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\a2031slhsfile1\2031CAT-T113-HP4014dn"
        MsgBox "The printer was added and set as the default printer."
    End Function
</script>

I added the above vbscript to an HTML document in the head section and one of the buttons has the following property:

onclick="AddPrinter()"

I didn't find much about this when searching on Google for an hour. What I did find didn't work. How does it know whether you're calling the function from javascript or vbscript or whatever anyway?

I get this error:

SCRIPT429: ActiveX component can't create object: 'WScript.Network'

Answer 1

Your Internet Explorer security settings prevent the creation of the ActiveX control. You need to allow "initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting".