Domain Users can't connect network printers after SP1 install

[MBC]

Has anyone experienced problems connecting network
printers after sp1 install? We have a NT4 domain and all
users with DomainUser rights are not able to connect
network printers (post sp1). An original Windows XP
installation (no sp1) hasn't this problem. We have too
many clients for an administrative user to connect to for
printer installs. Workaround? Patches? Other ideas?

Thanks for any and all input! -MBC-

 

[Alan Morris\(MSFT\)]

SP1 introduced a domain policy to prevent Point and Print from loading a
driver from an untrusted server. In the NT4 domain environment, this does
not work. You can also disabled the policy on the clients and they will get
the driver from the Server at connection time. It will be fixed in SP2 for
XP and you could request a QFE if you called PSS

start gpedit.msc
User Configuration / Administrative templates / Control Panel / Printers
Point and Print Restrictions.


Text from the policy
This policy setting restricts the servers that a client can connect to for
point and print. The policy setting applies only to non Print Administrators
clients, and only to machines that are members of a domain.

When the policy setting is enabled, the client can be restricted to only
point and print to a server within its own forest, and/or to a list of
explicitly trusted servers.

When the policy setting is not-configured, it defaults to allowing point and
print only within the client's forest.

When the policy setting is disabled, client machines can point and print to
any server.

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Alan Morris
Microsoft Printing Team
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