I got the bright idea to buy a Canon i950 photo printer so we could make
really good photo prints here at the office.
Its installed on a Windows ME machine and the printer is sharable through
Microsoft networking.
The problem is every workstation that is attached to the network now
automatically installs this Canon i950 printer driver. And sometime the
workstation thinks its not installed good enough and installs a second copy,
a third copy and so on.
I know the driver is propagating through TCP/IP because I attached a users'
home machine with just TCP/IP bound to the NIC to the network and the driver
installed as soon as the machine booted. (And this machine had neither file
or print sharing turned on.)
This is really annoying. I wanted the printer available to 5 or 6 users at
the most, not all 50 workstations on the network. Has anyone else run into
this and is there anyway to stop the driver from spreading short of turning
the sharing off?
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