remote user to manage own printer?

[Guest Glenn]

Hello,

 

What right/permission do I need to give to remote users so that they can

manage - change properties - of their OWN printers and ONLY their own?

 

(see the tab 'security' in the printer properties, permissions manage

printers)

(server = windows 2000 terminal server sp4; clients xp pro)

 

As a test, I gave the "manage printers" permission to remote users.

This showed a remote user ALL printers, allowing them to print to

another remote location. This is totally undesirable.

 

I need them to manage their own printers in order to resolve the default

paper size setting (A4 needed instead letter).

 

I, as admin, tried to set the page size on those remote users printers,

as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243942 .

 

The modification did not survive a logoff. Although my own remote

printer kept the setting. I guess something gets written in the user's

registry.

So the user has to do the modification him/herself. For this, the manage

printer permission is needed.

 

Suggestions are welcome.

glenn

[Guest Glenn]

Re: remote user to manage own printer?

 

anyone ?

 

the remote user can open the autocreated printer properties, but these

are greyed out.

I looked in the windows policies, but did not find a related setting.

 

regards

[Guest RichG]

Re: remote user to manage own printer?

 

I wish Glenn, I wish. As far as I can see this problem is really down to HP

doing away with a UK English installation option - our German colleagues

don't have this problem because the German installation defaults to A4. The

problem comes when you really do actually speak English properly and you

naturally need to use A4, as far as I can work out when the user logs into TS

it picks up the original printer defaults (Us English therefore Letter) and

there's chuff all you can do about it.

 

Currently the only way round this I've found is to make the user an

administrator, configure their printer manually, then remove admin status,

which kind of defeats the purpose of it dunnit?

 

If anyone has a better answer it would be appreciated......

 

"Glenn" wrote:

> anyone ?

>

> the remote user can open the autocreated printer properties, but these

> are greyed out.

> I looked in the windows policies, but did not find a related setting.

>

> regards

>