Printer Problems

[Ellwood]

we have installed the printer on to all the machines and tested that it works, and it works fine, as long as your an administrator. However if your not you just get a message saying no printer has been installed, therefore not allowing anyone to print.

Any one got any ideas what this could be?


Graham..

[Ya_know]

Windows NT uses profiles for every user that logs into the PC. Each user must have the printers added once they have logged in for the first time. Unless you use roaming profiles, for every workstation the individual logs into thereafter, a printer will need to be added. This is by design. NT 5 offeres the opertunity to make these printers available for all users of the PC, but, again NT4 has this limitation.

There is a registry manipulation that will add the printer to the default user profile. This will only effect new users since you made the change. MS has a better explaination...
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q252/3/88.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=adding%20a%20printer&rnk=22&src= DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=NTW40" target="_blank">How to Add a Default Printer for All New Users</a>

Enjoy

[Lowland]

What about "All Users" folder? Plus, your local policy settings can influence much NT4 functionality. For example, you can't set a local Users policy to be "Not allowed to add printers" and not supply printers, that's a conflict.

So, set up an All Users profile which is picked at new logon, and set your policies to dictate what can and cannot be added/amended

Unless you have roaming profiles, although the principle is the same, you have one master location managed by your server user manager

Windows have some useful reference material on setting up profiles, alot of which is in the native help file - more on-line

Good luck