Active Directory effects on XP Professional

[Guest]

In our work environment, we are in the process of bringing all users and computers into an Active Directory network environment. Recently we began the process of implementing group policy on all 2000 and XP Pro machines. Now that this policy is in effect, all users should have the same restrictions, but that's not the case. 2000 users are still able to map printers as they need to. XP users (regardless of whether local policy has been changed to allow them to) are still unable to map to network printers unless they are given administrative rights. A previous technet article mentioned that only admins or those who are included in the "local policy setting -> user right assignment -> load and unload device drivers" setting can have this right. Even if we do this step, it seems the group policy is overriding it and will still not allow them to map printers. Is there anything we can try to counteract this or is it simply an XP thing?

 

[Buz [MSFT]]

Your issue seems to be outlined here:

313644 Non-Administrators Cannot Remap an LPT Port to a Network Printer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313644

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In our work environment, we are in the process of bringing all users and

computers into an Active Directory network environment. Recently we began
the process of implementing group policy on all 2000 and XP Pro machines.
Now that this policy is in effect, all users should have the same
restrictions, but that's not the case. 2000 users are still able to map
printers as they need to. XP users (regardless of whether local policy has
been changed to allow them to) are still unable to map to network printers
unless they are given administrative rights. A previous technet article
mentioned that only admins or those who are included in the "local policy
setting -> user right assignment -> load and unload device drivers" setting
can have this right. Even if we do this step, it seems the group policy is
overriding it and will still not allow them to map printers. Is there
anything we can try to counteract this or is it simply an XP thing?

 

[Philip Nunn]

You may want to also look into this setting. If you you get the specified
error in the article, this will fix it.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=319939&product=winsvr2003

Philip Nunn

In our work environment, we are in the process of bringing all users and

computers into an Active Directory network environment. Recently we began
the process of implementing group policy on all 2000 and XP Pro machines.
Now that this policy is in effect, all users should have the same
restrictions, but that's not the case. 2000 users are still able to map
printers as they need to. XP users (regardless of whether local policy has
been changed to allow them to) are still unable to map to network printers
unless they are given administrative rights. A previous technet article
mentioned that only admins or those who are included in the "local policy
setting -> user right assignment -> load and unload device drivers" setting
can have this right. Even if we do this step, it seems the group policy is
overriding it and will still not allow them to map printers. Is there
anything we can try to counteract this or is it simply an XP thing?