Re: Power User Cannot Add Local Printer

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Thanks for taking the time to reply Lanwench. I'm not ready to accept the
"this is by design and you can't do anything about it" answer - not yet
anyway! I'm stubborn that way. I do have some possible workarounds such as
using rundll32/printui instead which may also help.

Geekgrrl.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Geekgrrl71 <Geekgrrl71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

I have a small application that calls AddPrinter to create a copy of
an installed printer.

Everything works fine under the administrator account, or an account
with administrative privileges. When I try to copy a printer with
this application under a user who is part of the Power User group, it
fails with error 1307 (This security ID may not be assigned as the
owner of this object. ) I have added Power Users to the Load/Unload
device driver user rights and the printer still fails to copy.

Strange to me though, I can successfully create a copy of the printer
using the Add Printer Wizard.

Does anyone have any ideas what the add printer wizard is doing
differently?

Thanks.

As far as I'm aware this is one of those "by design" things. I have no idea
what the wizard does behind the scenes that is different.



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