Revoke access to printer...

[Brad Pears]

We have a user on an XP Pro machine who has an attached "shared" printer...

This user frequently runs cheques on her printer and it seems that everytime
she is running cheques, someone will send a print job to her shared
printer - thus destroying some cheques and making her life miserable!

I told her she could cimply uncheck "sharing" to prevent users from printing
while she is running cheques... However, this is not preventing users from
printing at all! Now I have her revoking rights for the "everyone" group
which is working just fine...

However, my question is, why would not simply unchecking the sharing have
done the job? It appears that once a printer has been set up by a user, they
can print to the selected printer whether or not it is currently shared or
not!! Sounds bizarre to me!

Thanks,

Brad

 

[Guest]

I believe that she would have had to reboot her PC for the changes to take
effect.

 

[Brad Pears]

She does shut down her machine each night...

I believe that she would have had to reboot her PC for the changes to take
effect.

 

[Guest]

That is NOT what I stated. I said that she needs to REBOOT after she revokes
the shared printer, so that the rights can take effect.