domain users cannot access printer

[Dave]

Here is my situation:

I have a Domain Controller running 2000 Advanced Server. I created a
printer on the server and shared it, granting print permission to
Authenticated Users and Domain Users. Creator Owner has print and
manage permissions.

I have 30 client machines running XP Professional. As the local
administrator on the client, I added a printer pointing to the shared
printer on the Domain Controller and as the local administrator,
printing works fine. However, when a domain user logs into the Domain
on the client machine, nothing shows up under Printers and Faxes, the
user is also given a message that no printers are installed. I have
added printers before as the local administrator and the domain users
could access them, but in those cases, the printers were directly
connected.

Is there a permission, Active Directory setting, or registry setting I
need to set so my users can automatically use the shared printer when
they log on? I am using roaming profiles and my users need to be able
to access the printer from any client in the domain, and I don't want
them to have to add a printer each time they log on to a new client
machine.

Thanks for any hep you can give!

Dave

 

[Steve Potts]

well as far as i know printers are user-specific, i used
to use the registry way ( copying the printers section
from the current user when logged in as administrator to
users, there is a m/s article regarding this issue and how
to get around it.

Q252388 <--- applies to NT4 - but i should imagine its a
very simalar problem

now days i assign my printers by using scriptlogic.

60clients cost me £900ish, but it does pretty much
everything on the network, i can assign my printers using
lots of things like username, group name, computer name,
ip address, etc etc its very good.

a free way of doing this would be to download Kixtart from
http://www.kixtart.org/
its a logon scripting language, easy to learn, and just to
assign printers would be easy, if u decide to use kix,
then mail me at my address if u like, tell me how u want
printers to be assigned, for example, by username,
computername etc and ill write a script for you.
regards..

 

[Dave]

well as far as i know printers are user-specific, i used
to use the registry way ( copying the printers section
from the current user when logged in as administrator to
users, there is a m/s article regarding this issue and how
to get around it.

Q252388 <--- applies to NT4 - but i should imagine its a
very simalar problem

now days i assign my printers by using scriptlogic.

60clients cost me 900ish, but it does pretty much
everything on the network, i can assign my printers using
lots of things like username, group name, computer name,
ip address, etc etc its very good.

a free way of doing this would be to download Kixtart from
http://www.kixtart.org/
its a logon scripting language, easy to learn, and just to
assign printers would be easy, if u decide to use kix,
then mail me at my address if u like, tell me how u want
printers to be assigned, for example, by username,
computername etc and ill write a script for you.
regards..

thanks for the help. I went the kixtart route and created a logon
script to add the printer for my users. Works great.