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Group Pol to Allow Install Local Printer

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by ellen.notehelfer 1 view

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When tech support staff want to add printers for users from Add Printer Wiz, option to add local printer is grayed. I thot I could fix this with a group policy for the computers OU that gave support staff the right to load device drivers, BUT the option to add local printer is still grayed out. Is there a simple way to delegate this responsibility without adding a new admin account to every machine in my school district?

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by curlergirl

In order to add a local printer to a Win2K workstation, you HAVE to have local (not domain-level) administrative rights. Once you install the printer with local Admin rights, then it will appear for ALL users, so they don't have to install it again. This doesn't solve your problem completely, but at least you know that you only have to do the initial install once, with administrative rights, to make it work for all users. Hope this helps!

by ewgny

The best way to go is to create a Domain group for the tech group, add the user accounts of the techs that you would like to be local administrators to the group. Add the group to the local administrators group on each workstation.
You can do this in a ghost image so that you won't have to go to each PC. Or you can right click the computer object for each workstation in Active Directory Users and Computers- choose manage - local users and groups - and add the group to each computers local admin group. By adding the domain group to the local admin group you can have easy control over who you want as a local admin, by adjusting the members to the domain group. This way you will never have to go to an individual workstation

by micky martins

My way around this problem is by sharing the printer and on security tab give the print, manage printer and manage documents to the domain users group account.

The printer can be installed on client machine by instructing them to go to //printservername/ and double clicking the pritersharename the printer will be installed without a problem.

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