Printing to network printer without being a member of AD.

Users (generally students) are not required to be a member of the domain
to operate on campus. However, to print they need to authenticate to
AD. Users access the print server and are requested to authenticate to
AD and then add the printer to their computer.

Now our problem is that when they turn their computer on again and try to
print to the previously added printer the computer attempts to
authenticate them to the server using their local credentials (usually
Administrator) which doesn't work. I thought that if that failed they
would then get prompted again to enter their AD credentials but that
isn't happening. They never are asked to authenticate to AD and the
computer attempts to authenticate them repeatedly until the print job is
deleted.

Is there anyway to get the local computer to re-authenticate them to AD
(short of making them join AD and log into their AD account)?

Thanks in advance,

Edmund C. Greene
Systems Integrator
Boston College
(E-Mail Removed)

Browse to the UNC path of the print server... It will prompt for
credentials...

The better solution is to have them add the particular server to the
Manage Network Passwords (if they are using Vista Ultimate, Business,
or Enterprise).. If they are using one of the other Vistas, they will
need to either run a custom script that authenticates them or do it
manually.

We have this case with a few laptops in my office..

---
Jeffrey Randow
(E-Mail Removed)
Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006
http://www.networkblog.net



On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:01:53 -0500, "Edmund C. Greene" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>
>Users (generally students) are not required to be a member of the domain
>to operate on campus. However, to print they need to authenticate to
>AD. Users access the print server and are requested to authenticate to
>AD and then add the printer to their computer.
>
>Now our problem is that when they turn their computer on again and try to
>print to the previously added printer the computer attempts to
>authenticate them to the server using their local credentials (usually
>Administrator) which doesn't work. I thought that if that failed they
>would then get prompted again to enter their AD credentials but that
>isn't happening. They never are asked to authenticate to AD and the
>computer attempts to authenticate them repeatedly until the print job is
>deleted.
>
>Is there anyway to get the local computer to re-authenticate them to AD
>(short of making them join AD and log into their AD account)?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Edmund C. Greene
>Systems Integrator
>Boston College
>(E-Mail Removed)

Most students have Windows XP. Anyone running Vista should have
Enterprise.

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:07:24 -0500, Jeffrey Randow wrote:

> Browse to the UNC path of the print server... It will prompt for
> credentials...
>
> The better solution is to have them add the particular server to the
> Manage Network Passwords (if they are using Vista Ultimate, Business, or
> Enterprise).. If they are using one of the other Vistas, they will need
> to either run a custom script that authenticates them or do it manually.
>
> We have this case with a few laptops in my office..
>
> ---
> Jeffrey Randow
> (E-Mail Removed)
> Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006
> http://www.networkblog.net
>
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:01:53 -0500, "Edmund C. Greene" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Users (generally students) are not required to be a member of the domain
>>to operate on campus. However, to print they need to authenticate to
>>AD. Users access the print server and are requested to authenticate to
>>AD and then add the printer to their computer.
>>
>>Now our problem is that when they turn their computer on again and try
>>to print to the previously added printer the computer attempts to
>>authenticate them to the server using their local credentials (usually
>>Administrator) which doesn't work. I thought that if that failed they
>>would then get prompted again to enter their AD credentials but that
>>isn't happening. They never are asked to authenticate to AD and the
>>computer attempts to authenticate them repeatedly until the print job is
>>deleted.
>>
>>Is there anyway to get the local computer to re-authenticate them to AD
>>(short of making them join AD and log into their AD account)?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Edmund C. Greene
>>Systems Integrator
>>Boston College
>>(E-Mail Removed)