Re: Making printer queue available without authentication

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From: Bruce Sanderson (bsanders_at_junk.junk)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:34:58 -0700

I don't know how to configure an NT 4 server so that it won't ask for
credentials when attempting to connect to a printer, however, you can create
a network printer for anyone that logs on at the computer so they don't need
to create their own. See
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm.

Also, if the user issues the command

    net use \\NT4ServerName\IPC$

this will authenticate the user on NT4ServerName using the guest account
(assuming it is Enabled and they have not logged on locally with a username
that is the same as a local username on NT4ServerName) so they won't
actually get the prompt for credentials.

This command can be put into a logon script or in a .cmd file in the All
Users or specific users Startup folder. 

-- 
Bruce Sanderson  MVP
It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
"DLN" <dln@dln.invalid> wrote in message 
news:Xns954FBF32AC15dlndlninvalid@216.196.97.131...
> We have a lot of maintenance on college lab computers that occurs with
> student workers logged into local admin accounts that are not 
> authenticated
> to the domain. When they use the add printer wizard to create a network
> printer, an authentication dialog box pops up. When they enter the user 
> and
> password from a local account on the server or a domain account, the
> printer is created. Is there any way to configure the print server to not
> require any authentication when trying to setup network printers like 
> this?
> We have "everyone" configured to print as well as "anonymous logon". On NT
> 4, we have tried "guest". None of these attempts has produced the results
> that we are looking for. Any suggestions?
>
> The authentication is also causing problems because we are trying to 
> create
> scripts to automate printer setup from the local account.
>
> Thanks.

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