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

Guido Lorenzutti guido at lorenzutti.com.ar
Fri Feb 29 09:25:15 GMT 2008


Francis Galiegue wrote:
> Le Wednesday 27 February 2008 17:12:12 Chris Smith, vous avez écrit :
>   
>> On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Francis Galiegue wrote:
>>     
>>> Well, this page doesn't agree:
>>>       
>> My experience is different. Believe what you will.
>>
>>     
>
> OK, I can't say I relate to what you say (obviously), but here goes anyway.
>
> It _was_ indeed a Windows centric problem. The solution I found was to run 
> gpedit.msc (located in system32/ from the root Windows directory) and change 
> the relevant parameter. For each machine.
>
> Which reminds me that I read many times of a central "policy" available 
> as "soon" as Samba 3.x, therefore NT-style domains, which can enforce such 
> settings at a whole domain level (a file edited with poledit). I've never 
> tried that (never needed it actually - until now, it seems).
>
> Does it cover such stuff as the "point and print restrictions" that I editer 
> with gpedit.msc?
>
> (and no, "power user" and "domain user" weren't the subject at hand, to answer 
> another private response)
>
>   


What did you change in the gpedit to make it work?


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