Re: Local Printer installaton by "user

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:20:42 -0500

steve_connaughton@oldnational.com wrote:
> We have several laptop users that travel from site to site within the
> company and would like to be able to connect to the local printer.
> These users are "users" in the domain and of the local workstation.
> As a company, we are using IP printing and the users need to be able
> to configure the local printer to print to an IP address.
>
> Does any one know of a way to unlock the printing so a local "user"
> can add printers without making the users part of the Power Users
> group? We do not want them to have everything that will give them.

I'm not sure where you set this in group policy although I've looked around
(will watch this thread), but I must ask why, if these are networked
printers, you don't just set up local printers on the servers in the sites &
share them from there.

This would not require any local admin rights at all for users to be able to
connect to them as network printers, and you'd have a lot more central
management control over the printers (if everyone has a local standard
TCP/IP port & local printers, and you want to change anything on your IP
network, you'll have a lot of work to do).

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