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Win2K WS restricted users adding printer

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by jacklinamo

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I have a request for some users who work from home or from the road to attach a local printer to their workstation. By default, these users are restricted users.
Microsoft's technote Q297780 states that the user must be added to the local Power User group AND be granted the right to add/delete a printer.
Is it possible to create a local group that would grant a restricted user enough rights to add/delete a printer short of allowing them to install software to the local drive? Does printer installation require full rights to the C: drive and registry?

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by admin

but I have them bring the box in and we install it. Then they take it home or wherever and use it.

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by haus6565

Being in the power users they will have permission to install a print driver but not the software that comes with it, in fact in 2000 if you don't put a user in the power user group they probably will get real go at Solitaire, since that's all they'll be able to do. It's backwards from NT4 where you gave them permission to do things, now you have to take things away. The proceedue would be to go through the add a printer wizard and specifing where the driver is instead of simply putting the CD in and running set-up. So yes, permission to install printer, yes. Permission to install software, no.

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