Connecting shared printer on W2K

Make sure he's part of a group that's assigned the permission to print on the printer.

If you already installed the printer on the computer as administrator, then when the user logs in, he should be able to print (again, making sure he has the print permission on the print server).

When you copy a profile, you have to log in as the user and log out so that their profile is created under documents and settings. You then use system - user profiles to copy the administrator profile to the users profile. They will get the entire administrator profile. Otherwise make a new user as a template and set up the desktop. then copy that profile to all users in system - user profiles.
Are all the PCs running W2000? If they can see the printer, it sounds like they have W98 as the printer has stayed after the administrator install (which doesn't happen in W2k).
If they have W98, then at the W2k PC you have to make a user for each user that accesses the PC from the network. Then assign that user permissions. The username and password for the workgroup at the W2K PC must match the username and password at The W98 PCs

It sounds like you're in a workgroup environment.

If that's the case, you need to have the same username and password on each computer for each person. This is because the SAM database on each workgroup computer is completely separate from the next. If you add an account for a new user on one computer, in a workgroup, only that computer knows about that user. If you've got more than 10 users in that lab I would recommend getting a win2k server and installing Active Directory, it will make your life a lot easier.

The reason that it works when he/she just connects to it is because it is validating the user rights against the machines local SAM.

With this in mind, are these machines in a workgroup or domain ? They all must be in the same domain or workgroup for this to work correctly.

Also, remember that an NT workstation can only have 10 simultaneous connected shares. If your student lab has more than 10 machines it might not work correctly.

I'm going to answer your question by telling you how I would do it since I don't know all the details of your problem. There are two ways:

First

Add all machines to a domain.
Make sure all students log into the domain.
Make sure that the shared printer has the "Print" right setup for DomainUsers or Everyone or Authenticated Users.

Second

Add all machines to same workgroup.
Make all students log onto each machine with the same username and password.
Setup printer to allow the Everyone group the "Print" permission.

I recommend the first choice unless you don't have an NT/2000 Server.

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