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Print Spooler Message To Wrong User

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by randy.sigler

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We have a office worker with the same name as a user on another domain on our network. They have different profiles (logins etc). When our user prints a document, the spooler message is going to the other user on a different domain! (same state network)

Any ideas what we can check locally and address to the WAN network administration?

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by nettek

This will require a modification of the registry.

HLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers
For the value of NetPopupToComputer
0 indicates to send the message to the computer from where the job originated.
1 indicates to send the message to the computer where the user first logged on (in other words, if the user from the other domain with the same name logs onto his/her PC first, that is where the messages will be sent, regardless of which PC the job is originating).

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