Adding a printer as a domain user with WIndows 7
We have 2003 Server DCs and we are starting to introduce some Windows 7 clients (I'm not sure I need to install additional administrative templates for group policy?). We would like to allow domain users to add network printers. I don't see a "Run As" feature when you shift-RT-Mouse click on on the Add Printer. I appreciate the extra security in Windows 7, but how do we loosen the security so that domain users may add network printers I have published in AD or at least allow a domain admin to do a "Run As" when logged in as tthe domain user... When the domain user attempts to add a printer, we get the error: 0x000000002
December 23rd, 2009 3:40am

That is because the printer driver installation does not start because of the error. By default high privilege will be needed when you install driver. The clients may need to install the Windows 7 compatible driver on their client computers. Printer driver installation program will prompt that if you would like to install a local printer or a network shard printer. Then select the correct option and finish the installation. If the driver installation program does not help in this, follow the steps below to add a shard printer. 1. Click Start, click Control Panel and double click Devices and Printers.2. Click Add a Printer. 3. Select "Add a local printer". 4. Select "Create a new port". Choose "Local Port" as the type of the port.5. In the box "Enter a port name", type the address as the following format. \\[IP address of the host computer]\[The Share Name of the printer] Then click Next. 6. Follow the instruction to finish the installation. During installing, choose the correct driver in the driver list. Also you can try to add the Windows 7 compatible printer driver to the printer server. You need to install the Windows 7 compatible driver in one of the Windows 7 client, then follow the steps below. 1. Install the driver on one of the Windows 7 clients.2. Launch mmc from Start Search box.3. Click File->Add/Remove Snap-in.4. Add "Printer Management". Point to the server in "Specify the printer server". 5. Expand "Printer Management"->"Printer Servers"->"Drivers". 6. Right-click, then click "Add a driver".7. follow the instructions to add the Windows 7 printer driver. After doing so the driver should be added into the server. If the driver is packed, you can directly extract the driver pack and add the driver from Printer Management in the printer server. If the printer driver is not found, the driver should be not designed for enterprise environment. In this case you may need to add the printer from the client side manually.Arthur Xie - MSFT
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December 25th, 2009 10:48am

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