ADDING PRINTER THROUGH NETWORK

[Guest]

Good day everyone,

 

[Maincat]

Was the printer a member of a domain local group? If so, you may need to
change the settings there, perhaps by creating a new domain local group,
putting the printer in it and assigning the ACL accordingly.

 

[Guest]

Well, although I don't know what that means but I'm sure it's not the case.

It's listed in the directory as far as i'm concerned but the user of the
other computer cannot add it although his username is member of
Administrators of that local machine.

Maybe because they are not in a WORKGROUP setting? the two machines are
still part of the same domain but their users logon locally not to the domain.

Thanks

 

[Maincat]

Well, although I don't know what that means but I'm sure it's not the
case.

It's listed in the directory as far as i'm concerned but the user of the
other computer cannot add it although his username is member of
Administrators of that local machine.

Maybe because they are not in a WORKGROUP setting? the two machines are
still part of the same domain but their users logon locally not to the
domain.

Thanks

Please clarify - can both computers see the printer if they log in to the
domain? Since the printer is listed in the Active Directory, they should
do.
You can be in a workgroup or a domain - not both at the same time.

 

[Guest]

Yes, they do see the printer if they both log into the domain, and that was
the setup in the first place! the other computer had the printer installed
and everything was perfect.

After i asked both users to LOGON LOCALLY on the machine rather than the
DOMAIN, i cannot add the printer to the other computer through the network
anymore, and if I do using the domain administrator's password, after
rebooting or logging off/on by that user, it doesn't work.

 

[Maincat]

Yes, they do see the printer if they both log into the domain, and that
was
the setup in the first place! the other computer had the printer installed
and everything was perfect.

After i asked both users to LOGON LOCALLY on the machine rather than the
DOMAIN, i cannot add the printer to the other computer through the network
anymore, and if I do using the domain administrator's password, after
rebooting or logging off/on by that user, it doesn't work.

I think you're stuck here. I don't know of a method where a computer can be
a member of a domain and a workgroup at the same time. Sorry I can't be
more helpful.

 

[Guest]

Basically your users need to authenticate to the computer sharing the
printer. You can do this with the NET USE command. The authentication can be
to any share on the computer, doesn't have to be the printer. The
authentication needs to be with a domain username, e.g.

net use lpt3: \\computer\printer /user: domain\username password

Alternatively you could set the computers for automatic local-acccount
logon, and use MyLogon to connect to the domain, which will take care of
these things automatically if you use the new logon-script syntax.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Did you try Bruce Sanderson's article:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows