Once you have exhausted all of your efforts try rolling back to SP2. I have had a lot of trouble with SP3. It seems that Microsoft has protected some of its system DLL's. Just an idea.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Levis Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:04 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Unable to connect to printer Ah... Understood viz. policy. I'll give the drivers thing a try, and let the list know what finally fixes the problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:50 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Unable to connect to printer > > > Try this. I have seen this before. > If what you are saying is this. The printer maps but will not print. > > Install the printers locally on lpt port 1 (whatever). Then > install with the newest driver that you can get. Do this for > each printer. Then remove the printers but don't remove the > files if it asks you. > > Now when the script runs it will map the printers and use the > newer drivers. You could update the drivers on the server, > but this affects everybody. This is not a good idea if > everyone else is working okay. They aren't broke so don't fix > them. Just try it on this one pc. > > When I say policies, I mean local system policies. > > See you upgraded from NT to 2000. It could have brought over > some setting in the registry with it that is enabling some > local security policy in 2K. Hence the upgrade causing the problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:37 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Unable to connect to printer > > Not. > > Mappings go fine on problem machine. Can't print. > Policies haven't changed since before the upgrade. > User logs on to different w/s (Same OS, hardware), prints fine. > > Grrrrrrrrr. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:34 AM > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > Subject: RE: Unable to connect to printer > > > > > > Okay so we can count out you not having proper permissions. > > Now we can determine if it is a system problem or a user problem. > > > > It can be many things. My thinking is that it is a policy > > that is preventing the mappings. Maybe not?? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:26 AM > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > Subject: RE: Unable to connect to printer > > > > As soon as the user goes for a coffee, I'll try that and see > > what happens (I'm a Domain Admin)... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:20 AM > > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Unable to connect to printer > > > > > > > > > Chris, > > > > > > What happens if you log on to this machine? Can you map > and print to > > > network printers? Are you a domain admin or similar? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:16 AM > > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > > Subject: Unable to connect to printer > > > > > > DISCLAIMER - I always try to avoid upgrading and opt for a clean > > > install... This time I had no choice. > > > > > > So after upgrading a user from NT 4.0 to 2000 SP3, he > cannot print > > > to network printers. The printers are mapped with a > logon script, > > > but their status is "Access Denied, unable to > > connect". > > > > > > If the user logs on to a different machine, the printers map fine > > > and everything works. > > > > > > Google Groups shows that lots of people had this problem, > but no one > > > offered a solution... 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