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:- A policy is in effect on your computer which prevents you from connecting to this print queue. Please contact your system administrator We don't have Active Directory or any .NET servers. Stefan |
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 |
that's handy to know....
there's gonna be loads of xp1 workarounds over the next 2 months:D shunty |
Start>Run>
type in "gpedit.msc" This will open the Group Policy Editor in a new MMC window. Ian |
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. |
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