Re: Access denied for drivers - HELP !

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_no-spam.ameritech.net)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:01:37 -0600

Are you logged on as an administrator? If so, what error message do you get?
You may want to check the effective permissions in Local Security
Policy/security settings/local policies/user rights to make sure the
administrators group has rights to load and unload device drivers, etc.
there. --- Steve

"Tucker" <stephen.m.tucker@services.fujitsu.com> wrote in message
news:12a0901c411b7$33826f10$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Since putting on various service packs I now get acces
> denied when I try to add or change a printer definition
>
> I need to change the printer from a network shared device
> to a local (IP) printer and turn off old print server.
>
> Any ideas why it fails with access denied.
>
> Thank you

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