[Samba] Lingering WinXP SP2 issues

[Paul Gienger]

Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:

>On Thursday 13 January 2005 13:11, Paul Gienger wrote:
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>>>Has anyone else had this behavior? Any fixes (deleting tdb files
>>>perhaps)?
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>>It's a client side issue, no server changes would fix it aside from
>>making the user a member of Domain Admins, thereby giving local admin.
>>That's most likely not what you REALLY want to do though.
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>It would be solved by using [PRINT$] share and storing all your printer 
>drivers on the server.  A normal user will be able to connect to a network 
>printer but won't be able to install any drivers.
>
Do you install printers in a login script?  If so, I'd be interested in 
seeing exactly how you get around the issue of non-admins not being able 
to install printer drivers, since I've had to work-around here forever.  
Yes, we do store printer drivers on the server.

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