Guest Rajeev Dhungel Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Hi Frn, We have locked down our workstation quite heavily, and also our laptop users, so much so that they cannot add a local printer What we would like to be able to do is for the user to be able to add local printers but nothing else. Windows Xp, a user that is a member of the local users group and not a menber of the ADMIN or Power users group can't add local printer. But I have add users group as a part of the load and unload device drivers local security setting but even when users tried to add local printer through using add printer wizard cannot add local printer the option of local printer is greyed out. Please help me to short out this problem how could user those are on users group can add local printer. Rajeev
Guest Mark F. Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: Add local printers "Rajeev Dhungel" <RajeevDhungel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:266CA7E2-9AD5-4E66-9896-CBABB96332A7@microsoft.com... > Hi Frn, > > We have locked down our workstation quite heavily, and also our laptop > users, so much so that they cannot add a local printer What we would like > to > be able to do is for the user to be able to add local printers but nothing > else. > > Windows Xp, a user that is a member of the local users group and not a > menber of the ADMIN or Power users group can't add local printer. But I > have > add users group as a part of the load and unload device drivers local > security setting but even when users tried to add local printer through > using > add printer wizard cannot add local printer the option of local printer is > greyed out. > > Please help me to short out this problem how could user those are on users > group can add local printer. > > Rajeev Open the "Run" dialog and enter gpedit.msc. Look under "User Configuration" > "Administrative Templates" > "Control Panel" > "Printers" > "Prevent Addition of Printers". Should be either "Not configured" or "Disabled". You have to look through the other policy settings for device drivers and printer settings there also. The words "Allow" and "Prevent" can be confusing at first glance. Mark
Guest Rajeev Dhungel Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Re: Add local printers Dear Mark, Thanks a lot for your prompt response. But mark I am able to run add printer wizard. there is no problem to run add printer wizard. My problem is while adding printer using add printer wzard there are two options one is local printer and other is network printer. I want to choose local printer but it seems grayed out so please help me to enable this option. Thanks Rajeev Dhungel "Mark F." wrote: > > "Rajeev Dhungel" <RajeevDhungel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:266CA7E2-9AD5-4E66-9896-CBABB96332A7@microsoft.com... > > Hi Frn, > > > > We have locked down our workstation quite heavily, and also our laptop > > users, so much so that they cannot add a local printer What we would like > > to > > be able to do is for the user to be able to add local printers but nothing > > else. > > > > Windows Xp, a user that is a member of the local users group and not a > > menber of the ADMIN or Power users group can't add local printer. But I > > have > > add users group as a part of the load and unload device drivers local > > security setting but even when users tried to add local printer through > > using > > add printer wizard cannot add local printer the option of local printer is > > greyed out. > > > > Please help me to short out this problem how could user those are on users > > group can add local printer. > > > > Rajeev > > Open the "Run" dialog and enter gpedit.msc. Look under "User Configuration" > > "Administrative Templates" > "Control Panel" > "Printers" > "Prevent > Addition of Printers". Should be either "Not configured" or "Disabled". > > You have to look through the other policy settings for device drivers and > printer settings there also. The words "Allow" and "Prevent" can be > confusing at first glance. > > Mark > > >
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