Hi all, I am new to this list, but have been struggling with the following problem for a while: I have samba as PDC working fine except that on xp sp2 it is not possible to connect to any of the printers installed on samba. It says something like " the policy settings on this machine prevents connecting to this printer". However I have not set any policy settings on that xp box. How can fix this? Many thanks, Csaba
Hi Csaba,
You need to set the Point and Print functionality for your domain.
If it remains unset Windows interprets that as "not allowed".
See this Microsoft KB article for more details:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319939/
regards
David
Csaba Dobo wrote:> Hi all,
>
> I am new to this list, but have been struggling with the following problem
> for a while:
>
> I have samba as PDC working fine except that on xp sp2 it is not possible
to
> connect to any of the printers installed on samba.
> It says something like " the policy settings on this machine prevents
> connecting to this printer".
> However I have not set any policy settings on that xp box.
>
> How can fix this?
>
> Many thanks,
> Csaba
>
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Hi all, I am new to this list, but have been struggling with the following problem for a while: I have samba as PDC working fine except that on xp sp2 it is not possible to connect to any of the printers installed on samba. It says something like " the policy settings on this machine prevents connecting to this printer". However I have not set any policy settings on that xp box. How can fix this? David suggested this but no luck as I get a different message now: "Hi Csaba, You need to set the Point and Print functionality for your domain. If it remains unset Windows interprets that as "not allowed". See this Microsoft KB article for more details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319939/ regards David" ------------------------------- Now I am getting this: After playing with the settings you mentioned now I am getting a different message when trying to connect to a printer: "You do not have enough rights to connect to the selected printer". Any ideas? Many thanks, Csaba