samba - Feb 2005 - Printers not visible to other users

Hi all,

I run a 3.0.8 Samba PDC with WIN XP SP2 clients. I configured printing 
(lprng) with drivers uploaded to the server for easy printer 
installation on the clients.
This works like a charm: I can drag'n drop printers from the server's 
printer share or install them with the local "Add printer" wizzard.
I do this as a domain admin on the client and it works fine.
BUT: If another user logs in to the client, he does not see the 
printers! And since he is not admin, he cannot install any.

I then took a look into the admin's NTUSER.DAT (with a hex editor) and 
found the names of the printers there!
So it seems i installed them only for this user.
Is this possible? I always thought that printers are installed system-wide.

What am i missing here? Can anyone help?

Regards,

Heinrich Rebehn

University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications -

Phone : +49/421/218-4664
Fax   :            -3341

Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I run a 3.0.8 Samba PDC with WIN XP SP2 clients. I configured printing 
> (lprng) with drivers uploaded to the server for easy printer 
> installation on the clients.
> This works like a charm: I can drag'n drop printers from the
server's
> printer share or install them with the local "Add printer"
wizzard.
> I do this as a domain admin on the client and it works fine.
> BUT: If another user logs in to the client, he does not see the 
> printers! And since he is not admin, he cannot install any.
> 
> I then took a look into the admin's NTUSER.DAT (with a hex editor) and 
> found the names of the printers there!
> So it seems i installed them only for this user.
> Is this possible? I always thought that printers are installed system-wide.
> 
> What am i missing here? Can anyone help?
> 
I found the answer in the Samba Howto:

Since network printers are installed per user, this much simplifies the 
process of keeping the installation up-to-date

Thanks for the good documentation, it is just soooo much to read ;-)

--Heinrich