Domain user account unable to add/use network printers

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Dave A.

By accident the other day, I accidently deleted the wrong user account
(Doh!) I created a new account with the same name, I re-connected the
exchange 2000 mail account to the new account, linked the account to the
existing profile folder, added it to appropriate sec. groups, etc.

The problem is, the user can log on, her profile appears intact, but her
network printers were gone. When she attempted to re-add the network
printers, she received an error message that she doesn't had sufficient
access to the computer. I worked around this by adding her to the local
admins group on her machine for now, but does anyone know what caused this
and how to fix it?

Thanks!

Dave
 
Dave,

Most probably what happened is that her Domain user account was not a member
of any group on the local computer. You need to be - at the very least - a
member of the Power Users group on the local computer to be able to add
printers. I would strongly suggest that you change the membership of her
domain account from the local Administrators group to the local Power Users
group.

HTH,

Cary
 
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