"Mike O NOSPAM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello, would appreciate any information source guidence and/or an answer
> to
> the following problem...mainly information source "how to" guidence.
>
> System: Win 2003 server, 31 pc's, two shared networked printers
You're using AD, I presume. What are the client OSes?
>
> Problem: Shared printer resource on LAN can not be added to a client pc.
> It
> is password protected from being added.
It's not actually password protection - it's NTFS security.
>
> When you are loged into the client pc as a user (prehaps as an
> administrator, I'm not sure if that was tried, not my system and I was an
> observer) anyway, loged on to the client and accessing printer/faxes from
> control panel and we ran through the steps to add a printer. At the point
> were you are allowed to find printers available on the LAN and in making
> the
> selection of that printer from the list (this is a single domain) and
> after
> selecting the printer, a dialog login box requesting user name and
> password
> comes up.
>
> The systems owner tried various login combinations in the login box
> without
> success.
>
> Now this client pc has access to one of the two printers. The printer
> available is hosted on another pc with a different client name called
> reception recption\hp 2200 and is indicated to be the default printer. The
> printer we want to add is hosted on sta1\hp2200.
I suggest you re-do your printer setup in general - get JetDirect cards (or
similar) for all printers, assign them static IP addresses or use DHCP
reservations, and share the printers from the server (or a dedicated print
server). All clients can point to the server to access the printer shares. I
don't like relying on a workstation to share anything in a domain - it will
slow down the poor user's PC when people print, and you run into all kinds
of fun like you're experiencing now. With more than a small handful of
users, sharing from a workstation at all is not advisable. Save yourself
time & money & just network the printers.
>
> Half the systems pc's were originally setup to print to recption and the
> other half were to sta1. This pc was obviously taken out of a recption
> location and placed into sta1's environment, yet it still prints to this
> printer over the LAN. If you go to any other sta1 printer client pc and
> attempt to add recption's printer the same thing happens. Printer addition
> is
> halted by password request.
>
> We are baffled as to how and why we are being denied this resource
> addtion.
> It is apparent that the client pc's were locked down to a specific printer
> and denied switching between them. My main question is what configuration
> arena is responsible for this action. Are we not logied in with
> appropriate
> authority to manage shared resources, eg admin priviliges or are we facing
> rights and permission issues from the server side, or user group policy
> situation? I am not a Net admin. This is new territory for me.
>
> Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated. Please email me if you
> like.
>
>
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