Permissions error in Win XP printing

[Travis R]

This is more of an annoyance than anything since the
printer and printing capability actually work. We have
25 client pc's in a domain environment all running XP
Pro. I have set up a global group for printing in AD and
assigned permissions to it. However, when you open the
printers applet on a client and see the defaul printer
listed, right below it is always says, 'Access Denied,
Unable to connect' even though you can actually print
with no problems. Any ideas?

 

[Alan Morris\(MSFT\)]

Yes I know exactly what is happening. This needs to be addressed at the
client but there is a post buried somewhere here where there was some DS
permission issue and the SIDs were not propagating tokens properly. See if
changing the settings on one of the clients resolves the issue. I'll try to
find the post.

This is the SERVER getting access denied talking to the spooler on the
client.

If you have rolled out some additional security on the clients you can see
this.

needs to be set to 1 on the client machine
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246261
How to Use the RestrictAnonymous Registry Value in Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;162695
SMSINST: "Access Denied" Error Message When You Try to Connect to a Shared
Network Printer

You might see this if the Internet Connection Firewall is enabled. You
might need to enable the sharing ports on the clients.


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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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