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Administer rights to a shared printer

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by audit

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I have a Windows 2000 PC desktop operating on an NT/Novell network. I am the manager in my department and I share a printer with my statf. They have Windows for NT on their desktops. Presently we can each control our print jobs through the printer que. We can see the other jobs in the que but do not have the rights to the other jobs. I have asked our helpdesk if they could assign me be rights to adminster other jobs when needed. They have not yet been able to determine how to do this in our current network environment. Where can this information be located.

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by budthegrey

Your message is a little short on detail -- what version of netware? Queue based or NDPS?, How is the printer connected / shared through the network, etc. You said "I share a printer", which opens the door to the possibility that this is not a NetWare printer, but a windows printer.

Presuming it is a NetWare controlled printer, Administrator and/or Operator rights to the printer or queue object can easily be granted to anyone in about 15 seconds via the appropriate management utility (NWAdmin, Console1, iManager).

by kinetechs

If you add each users' account to the local Print Operators group on each desktop, they should be able to control all print jobs.

Cheers!
~Sean

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