We don't give them admin rights under any circumstances. Not on a desktop, not on a laptop, not on nothin'.
In our case, we don't want them connecting their hardware to ours anyway. So if their home printer doesn't work, it's fine by us. As I mentioned earlier, you could have them share their home printer. They can then connect to the shared printer from their laptop without admin rights (and without having to unplug the printer from their home computer to plug into the laptop). That seems like an easy solution. Works better with some printers than others, though, depending on the drivers. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Plug and Play printers GPO Just to confirm where I am at then....Power User is not going to make it for them in this situation then. Correct? That stinks. Laptops are probably the worst place for a local admin in our environment. They go home where they are no longer protected by our web filter...we run that very tight. How are the rest of you dealing with this? I am tempted to day 'bring your printer in and we will help you'. Does Vista have a better answer? From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Plug and Play printers GPO Yeah the user needs the ability to add hardware. i.e dot001, usb001 or whatever. Love HP home units!! ________________________________ From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP Plug and Play printers GPO USB printers will create a printer port when they're setup (USB001, etc.). THIS is probably the part that's failing, since I've seen that, even if it's the same printer/PC combination, the USB printer port can change depending on what devices are present and what port it's plugged into. On 3/13/08 7:42 AM, "Kennedy, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Got that set also, it seems...and google backs it up.....that this does not fix the issue for USB printers. USB printers seem to install more as a device rather than a 'printer', as far as XP is concerned. So far the combo I am trying is having the users as power users, allow load and unload device drivers + disabled 'prevent users from installing printer drivers' (although that should not impact power users per MS) and I am even allowing silent succeed on unsigned drivers. I plug in the USB printer and it detects and instantly says you need to be an admin and asks for credentials. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Plug and Play printers GPO IIRC, there's also a policy setting for Allow user to install/delete printers. Maybe that's where you need to look? Joe Heaton ________________________________ From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: XP Plug and Play printers GPO Am I reading this right, even as a power users and allowing 'load and unload device drivers' a user can not install a plug and play USB printer? And if so how are the rest of you handling that for laptop users with home printers? ----- Salvador Manzo [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter University of Southern California 818-612-5112 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
