Re: Admin Printer Setup?

From: Bruce Sanderson (Bruce.Sanderson_at_junk.junk)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:07:58 -0700

You have a couple of possible choices:

1. add the computer to the domain and then logon using a domain user account
that has access to the printer. In this scenario, you can add the domain
user account to the local Administrators group (while logged on locally as
Administrator) so that the domain user account acts as a local
administrator.

2. open a command prompt and use this command:

   net use \\printservername\IPC$ password /USER:DomainName\DomainUserName
/persistent:yes

where:
   printservername is the Computer Name of the computer that has the
(network) printer you want to use
   password is the password for the DomainName\DomainUserName
   DomainName is the name of the domain in which DomainUserName is defined
   DomainUserName is the User Name for a user account defined in the
DomainName domain that is permitted to use the printer
   /persistent:yes is exactly that character string - this is optional, but
makes the setting permanent, so you don't have to issue the command each
time you logon. Naturally, if the password for the DomainUserName account
is changed, you will have to re-issue the command with the new password.

After isssuing this command, you should be able to use the printer. 

-- 
Bruce Sanderson MVP
It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
"Stephen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:c46301c4385d$02f178b0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am logged into the box locally as the admin. I am trying
> to connect to a network printer. I can add the printer
> with add printer utility using the \\server\printer
> syntax, however, the system cannot access the printer
> (access denied) because it is on the domain. How do I
> either set it up differently or supply the credentials so
> it can be accessed?
>
> Thanks.

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