[Samba] Still unresolved: adding printers as a non admin domain user doesn't work

Chris Smith smb23 at realcomputerguy.com
Wed Feb 27 15:01:00 GMT 2008


On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Francis Galiegue wrote:
> When I use XP, the only option I have is to first add the printer as
> either the local administrator of the machine, or the domain
> administrator, and only then I can add this printer as a normal,
> unpriviledged domain user. Uh.

This is not a Samba issue, it's normal Windows operation. You need to 
sufficient privileges to install the driver. Once installed a normal 
user can connect to the printer. It has always worked the same way for 
me with both Win2k and XP.

-- 
Chris


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