[Samba] installing printerdriver without being admin under NT

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Mar 7 14:04:47 GMT 2003


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On 6 Mar 2003, Thomas Klettke wrote:

> I think the trick is that on NT the user has to be a local administrator
> for that machine (not the domain). On NT a common user can not install a
> print driver (no matter where it's being installed from), this requires
> admin privileges - I believe there is a local printer admin too, if you
> don't want to give users full admin access to their machine.  If the
> driver is installed, then the user can - of course - map to that
> printer.

It is actually the spooler that installs the driver and that runs under
the SYSTEM account normally.  point-n-print works fine with NT
workstation.  I think there is a policy on NT4 server that might prevent
this though.




cheers, jerry
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