Delegation of printers in W2K - AD

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Peter L

I want to delegate the control of printers to desktop support. I see
no way to do this in AD. When I look at permissions assigned to the
printers on the print server (member server) I see an entry for full
control to MACHINENAME/PRINT OPERATORS. ...there is no such local
group on that machine when viewed in "my computer / manage". I can't
belive that the plan is to change permissions on every printer...we
have 200+ printers on each print server. I suppose I could make each
printserver a DC, and then I'd have BUILTIN/PRINT OPERATORS to work
with, but that sounds pretty crazy as a design.

What am I missing here?

-P
 
Hi,

I think you are right - only printers attached to DC's
can be set up this way.

However, you could publish your printers in AD (Option on
the sharing tab). That way you could add users to the
Local Print Operators group on the DC, and they will be
able to manage any directory published printers.

Martin
 
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