samba - Jan 2005 - Lingering WinXP SP2 issues

After apparently flawed testing, we rolled out SP2 for XP this week as 
samba seemed to be able to handle printing acceptably in recent 
versions.

Once we rolled it out, we started getting reports of many users 
receiving the error :A policy is in effect on your computer which 
prevents you from connecting to this print queue. Please contact your 
system administrator." on a select few queues.  This occurs only on WXP 
SP2 machines when the user has less-than-admin rights on the local 
machine.  Users with local admin priviledges seem to have jobs 
disappear occasionally, but otherwise behave normally.

Has anyone else had this behavior? Any fixes (deleting tdb files 
perhaps)?
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David Schlenk
Operating Systems Analyst
Bethel University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
david-schlenk@bethel.edu

> from connecting to this print queue. Please contact your system 
> administrator." on a select few queues.  This occurs only on WXP SP2 
> machines
You didn't have this issue before SP2?  AFAIK, you should see this all 
the time (SP2 or not, even w/2000) when a non-admin user connects, 
provided the printer hasn't been installed already as by someone with admin.
> Has anyone else had this behavior? Any fixes (deleting tdb files 
> perhaps)?
It's a client side issue, no server changes would fix it aside from 
making the user a member of Domain Admins, thereby giving local admin.  
That's most likely not what you REALLY want to do though.

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Paul Gienger                    Office: 701-281-1884
Applied Engineering Inc.
Systems Architect               Fax:    701-281-1322
URL: www.ae-solutions.com       mailto: pgienger@ae-solutions.com