I want to choose username for printing - possible in Windows?

[usenet]

Hello!
Our (Unix) admins have changed the print server to CUPS.
And Unix admins, especially these, are no Windows friends. Pffff.....

For 5 years, I have been able to print without problems,
but now, nothing works anymore.

I cannot see the printer properties,
sometimes the page is printed, but error message "could not be
printed".
Lots of problems, delays of several minutes, etc.


The admins say, I have to change my (local) username
to my (system-wide) username, which I do not want to!

Is there any way to persuade Windows to use a different username for
printing?

I have already tried to start the spoolsv.exe under that other
username,
but the service works only with that "local system account"
with "allow data exchange between service and desktop" (whatever that
means)

many thanks!
Andreas

 

[Kevin]

Maybe the the "runas /user:" command can help.

1) Create a new user-account with the system-wide-username.
2) Log into this new system-wide-username account and try to print.
3) If you can print from the new account, then log into your local-username
account, and use "RUNAS /user:system-wide-username" with the program you use
to print.
4) If you can print from your local-username account using RUNAS, then you
can keep your local-username.