I believe you must have a print server. The very definition of a shared
printer is a printer that is accessible through a print server.
I think that Windows Server 2003 disables all servers by default for
security reasons. All you would be doing is enabling a server that was
enabled by default in previous versions of Windows.
There is the option of Internet printing. That is where you use HTTP to
connect to a shared printer via IIS. I believe that this defers to the print
server anyway, therefore you must be running a print server. It is actually
less secure because it's opening up an HTTP server. Perhaps someone else who
knows more about it can confirm that.
I think that the IIS Lockdown Tool removed my Printers virtual folder and
set the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
NT\Printers\DisableWebPrinting registry entry to 1. I don't know a whole lot
about Internet printing, so I was going to experiment it a bit so I could
tell you more. But I can't do that, because I do not have the patience nor
perhaps the skill to re-enable it after it has been locked down.
Paul
