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by robert_jones

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We are preparing for an XP rollout and I am trying to find a way to allow normal users to be able to add printers without requiring admin rights under windows XP. We are in a NT 4 domain still and currently file and printer sharing is on a Netware 4.1 network. We will be moving to Active directory later. The onyl thing close that I have found is to give a local group the local policy to install/uninstall device drivers. This works but gives them right to do any driver, not just printers. Any ideas??

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by matthew

There is a tool in the Windows 2000 Resource kit called con2prt. It will allow you to make a script to add printers and set the default printer.

Hope this helps.

Matthew

by mfischer

I'm going to suggest a few different ideas... things that you're doing are complicated :-)

1. Set a login script (ig kixtart) to configure printers for users based on some criteria (ie group membership, policy etc)

2. Use AD services to automatically install printers for users based on location.

3. Groups or OU's can be given explicit rights to install a printer in ADS.

The simplest, and probably the most elegant solution is to use ADS and assign printers based on job duties. After that there would be the scripting solution. Scripting is ideal when groups or duties for the end users change frequently because there is only ONE file that assigns resources for the enterprise.

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