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I finally figured it out. I figured that I'd share: I was sorting my labs AD Computers into OUs. I then assigned a blank group policy for the printers on that OU. Using the Printer Manager, I installed the printers and drivers as a TCP/IP printer on my print server. I then used the "Deploy Printer" option to configure the until now blank group policy This was all working perfectly. I had not had any problems doing it this way. This installs the printers on the client machines as TCP/IP printers, so none of them are dependent on a print server. My mistake was that I forgot a crucial step in this kind of deployment process: I still had to share the printer from the print server. Doing this allowed the computers to install the necessary drivers from the print server. what I can't figure out is how the administrator accounts could see and use use the printers, but the non-admins could not. Is there a hidden administrative share that holds the drivers? Was Windows able to install local drivers each time? Anyways, as usual, something small and somewhat obvious was preventing it from working. From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 7:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO Printer install non-admins Someone just went through this and found their own solution. I could have sworn I archived it but apparently I did not. It was from perhaps two weeks ago. Ring any bells, anyone? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
