Guest Ehren Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Hello- I have a sticky problem that is causing me grief. In one of our labs I this command to connect a network printer and make it available to all users of the computer: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\server\%printername% The command seems to have worked because when i connect with any user that has admin rights the printer shows up and works just fine. However when i log in with the normal account that would be used on the computer which is just a normal user account the printer does NOT show up. Also when I browse for the printer and right click on it and click connect to connect it manually I get the following error: "You do not have sufficient acces to your computer to connect to the selected printer". When I add this user to the local administrators group and log off and log in, as I said the printer shows up and works. Then if i remove them from the local administrators group and log off and log back on it does not and will not even let me manually connect to it. I am assuming that the error is why the printer is not showing up. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to give that user sufficient access to the computer to connect to the printer? Client OS is XP Pro SP2 Thanks!
Guest Bruce Sanderson Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 Re: non admin user cannot connect to network printer I suggest posting in the microsoft.public.winodwsp.print_fax newsgroup for printer related issues like this. Printer drivers can be quite ideosyncratic - what make and model of printer is this? Is the user account a local user account or a domain user account? -- Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. "Ehren" <Ehren@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A393AF21-C8D2-40B8-B88D-0EA602A87F6A@microsoft.com... > Hello- > > I have a sticky problem that is causing me grief. In one of our labs I > this > command to connect a network printer and make it available to all users of > the computer: > > rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\server\%printername% > > The command seems to have worked because when i connect with any user that > has admin rights the printer shows up and works just fine. However when i > log in with the normal account that would be used on the computer which is > just a normal user account the printer does NOT show up. > > Also when I browse for the printer and right click on it and click connect > to connect it manually I get the following error: > > "You do not have sufficient acces to your computer to connect to the > selected printer". > > When I add this user to the local administrators group and log off and log > in, as I said the printer shows up and works. Then if i remove them from > the > local administrators group and log off and log back on it does not and > will > not even let me manually connect to it. > > I am assuming that the error is why the printer is not showing up. Does > anyone have any ideas what I can do to give that user sufficient access to > the computer to connect to the printer? > > Client OS is XP Pro SP2 > > Thanks! >
Guest Ehren Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 Re: non admin user cannot connect to network printer I would have posted there but the issue involves ad and group policy and domain users. And people in the Xp newsgroup wouldnt probably be able to factor those things in. I ended up figuring it out, ends up it was a long ways away from what I thought, it ended up being an issue with the profile and not permissions at all. I dont know exactly why but I remade the roaming profiles and then it worked. Thanks :) "Bruce Sanderson" wrote: > I suggest posting in the microsoft.public.winodwsp.print_fax newsgroup for > printer related issues like this. > > Printer drivers can be quite ideosyncratic - what make and model of printer > is this? > > Is the user account a local user account or a domain user account? > > -- > Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing > http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders > > It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. > > > > "Ehren" <Ehren@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:A393AF21-C8D2-40B8-B88D-0EA602A87F6A@microsoft.com... > > Hello- > > > > I have a sticky problem that is causing me grief. In one of our labs I > > this > > command to connect a network printer and make it available to all users of > > the computer: > > > > rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\server\%printername% > > > > The command seems to have worked because when i connect with any user that > > has admin rights the printer shows up and works just fine. However when i > > log in with the normal account that would be used on the computer which is > > just a normal user account the printer does NOT show up. > > > > Also when I browse for the printer and right click on it and click connect > > to connect it manually I get the following error: > > > > "You do not have sufficient acces to your computer to connect to the > > selected printer". > > > > When I add this user to the local administrators group and log off and log > > in, as I said the printer shows up and works. Then if i remove them from > > the > > local administrators group and log off and log back on it does not and > > will > > not even let me manually connect to it. > > > > I am assuming that the error is why the printer is not showing up. Does > > anyone have any ideas what I can do to give that user sufficient access to > > the computer to connect to the printer? > > > > Client OS is XP Pro SP2 > > > > Thanks! > > >
Guest Bruce Sanderson Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 Re: non admin user cannot connect to network printer Good to hear your problem is solved. Don't be put off by the name of the newsgroup (microsoft.public.windows.print_fax); there are some people that respond to posts in that newsgroup that are knowledgeable about domain environments, including one or two from the Microsoft Printing product group. -- Bruce Sanderson MVP http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/ It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. "Ehren" <Ehren@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4F1E6221-8B68-4855-9BC7-8167430BB0FD@microsoft.com... >I would have posted there but the issue involves ad and group policy and > domain users. And people in the Xp newsgroup wouldnt probably be able to > factor those things in. > > I ended up figuring it out, ends up it was a long ways away from what I > thought, it ended up being an issue with the profile and not permissions > at > all. I dont know exactly why but I remade the roaming profiles and then > it > worked. > > Thanks :) > > "Bruce Sanderson" wrote: > >> I suggest posting in the microsoft.public.winodwsp.print_fax newsgroup >> for >> printer related issues like this. >> >> Printer drivers can be quite ideosyncratic - what make and model of >> printer >> is this? >> >> Is the user account a local user account or a domain user account? >> >> -- >> Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing >> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders >> >> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. >> >> >> >> "Ehren" <Ehren@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:A393AF21-C8D2-40B8-B88D-0EA602A87F6A@microsoft.com... >> > Hello- >> > >> > I have a sticky problem that is causing me grief. In one of our labs I >> > this >> > command to connect a network printer and make it available to all users >> > of >> > the computer: >> > >> > rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\server\%printername% >> > >> > The command seems to have worked because when i connect with any user >> > that >> > has admin rights the printer shows up and works just fine. However >> > when i >> > log in with the normal account that would be used on the computer which >> > is >> > just a normal user account the printer does NOT show up. >> > >> > Also when I browse for the printer and right click on it and click >> > connect >> > to connect it manually I get the following error: >> > >> > "You do not have sufficient acces to your computer to connect to the >> > selected printer". >> > >> > When I add this user to the local administrators group and log off and >> > log >> > in, as I said the printer shows up and works. Then if i remove them >> > from >> > the >> > local administrators group and log off and log back on it does not and >> > will >> > not even let me manually connect to it. >> > >> > I am assuming that the error is why the printer is not showing up. >> > Does >> > anyone have any ideas what I can do to give that user sufficient access >> > to >> > the computer to connect to the printer? >> > >> > Client OS is XP Pro SP2 >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >>
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