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Printers not available to user

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by retro

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I installed several lexmark printers on an NT 4 Sp6 machine. The printers are all available and work fine when logged on as adminstrator, but when the user logs on the printers are not there. I have seen questions similar to this posted before buthave not seen any answers.

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by don christner

An easy way to accomplish this is to do the following. Select Add Printer, local printer on LPT1 (never mind that you may or may not have a printer on LPT1), install the drivers and finish. Now, right-click on the printer, select Properties then Ports. Add a new port (not a new port type), add the printer port like, //yourprintserver/PrintersSharedName, click OK and you're done. Since the NT4 machine thinks you installed a local printer, it lets all users get to it.

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