ozzy

I'm setting up a few brand new Dell PC's that arrived with XP installed. I've installed SP1 and added the workstations to our NT4 domain.

When I login as a non-admin user I can't add any printers. I get the following error message:-

I found this little titbit Q319939 but how do you access the group policy editor on a local XP workstation?

We don't have Active Directory or any .NET servers.

Stefan

ozzy

I found a temporary work around. If I login to the XP workstation as the local admin user and connect to our shared network printers, then log back in as the user I can add the printers.

Looks like SP1 disables users from installing their own printer drivers - thanks MS.

Stefan

shunty

that's handy to know....
there's gonna be loads of xp1 workarounds over the next 2 months

shunty

IanW

Start>Run>

type in "gpedit.msc"

This will open the Group Policy Editor in a new MMC window.

Ian

ozzy

Cheers Ian.

Ran gpedit.msc
Select User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Printers
Double-click Point and Print Restrictions
Set to Disable

Default is Not Configured (but in MS speak this means Enabled)

This is fine on a few PC's, but what if I had 100 delivered. Would this mean performing this on all PC's, OR using MMC from a .NET server OR something else?

Do MS have a utility that allows you to select what is enabled or disabled when rolling out these SP's? It would be handy to be asked if I had wanted this installed

Stefan
P.S. Once again, thanks MS.