Install printers for Domain Users

[selgan828]

Another AD question.

How do I enable AD users to install printers? The only way I found I could do this was to make that user an admin on the local machine.

I did try loggin on as a local admin, installing the printer, and then logging back on as the user and that did not work.

If there really is no way for a user to install a printer, then how do I set it up so the admin can install it but the user can still print to it?

 

[Mavtech]

A power user should be able to add a printer to a computer. Is it a local printer or a network printer?

 

[selgan828]

In my situation, there are 4 printers.

2 are actually network printers, and 2 are connected to the DC via usb. I have installed the printers on the DC and am sharing those printers across the network to each computer.

 

[Mavtech]

Is the Add printer option not available? Or is the Add network printer not available to the users?

 

[selgan828]

Oh no. Add printer option is there, but it always give access denied when trying to install the printer.

 

[Fardringle]

If that is the case, then you need to give the users permissions to access the printers on the domain controller itself.

In the Printers and Faxes window on the server, right-click on each printer, select Sharing, go to the Security tab and add the users with the permissions that they need for each of the printers (print, delete jobs, etc.).

 

[RebateMonger]

Further, if you install the printers on a Server, you can use logon scripts to automatically install printers into each User's Profile.

 

[selgan828]

I did give the users permissions to use the printers but it still would not allow them to install them.

Can you give me some examples of logon scripts to install the printers?