Adding Printer to Limited User Account

[Ken Triebold]

This issue has come up at our small town library which has six computers and
they are all on a wired network. I connected a USB printer to the
librarian's computer and it works fine. I then shared it and added it to the
other librarian's computer and that works fine too. We also have four other
computers that patrons use. The patrons log in in a limited user account. We
want them to also be able to use the printer that I mentioned above while
using the patron's computers. I logged in to each of the four patron's
computers, one at a time, as administrator, and was able to add the printer.
I confirmed that I could print while logged in as administrator. However,
when logging in as a patron in the limited account, I cannot print to the
new printer. For example, in Microsoft Word, the new printer does not even
appear in the drop-down-list for the printers in the print dialog box. The
problem is the same for all four of the patron's computers. Can anyone offer
a suggestion as to what I need to do in order for the limited account to
have access to this new printer?

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

a printer connection is a per user setting. Each user has to make a
connection to the printer


http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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[Ken Triebold]

Thanks for the reply. It makes sense to me. I will try it out next time I go
to the library.