How to make a printer visible for other users from win 2K

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Danny Dang

I have multi-user using a workstation, but I want to creat
(map) only one network printer (not local printer) on that
PC SO all users who logon that PC can use it without add a
new one for him or her. I,m stuck...
Can some one know how to setup a network printer on win 2K-
PRO for vary user profiles?
Thanks,
Danny
 
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From: "Danny Dang" <[email protected]>
Subject: How to make a printer visible for other users from win 2K
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:48:47 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.printing

I have multi-user using a workstation, but I want to creat
(map) only one network printer (not local printer) on that
PC SO all users who logon that PC can use it without add a
new one for him or her. I,m stuck...
Can some one know how to setup a network printer on win 2K-
PRO for vary user profiles?
Thanks,
Danny
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Danny,

The first thing we need to keep in mind is that a Network printer is a per user printer and a Local printer is a per machine
printer. If we select Network printer in the Add Printer wizard then it will be added to the user's profile and they are the only
one that will see it.

We can work around this by telling the Add Printer wizard we want to add a Local printer, when we reach the screen that
asks us to select the port tell it we want to create a new Local Port and when it asks us to name the port name it the UNC
(\\server name\print share name). This will cause the print queue to be installed as a Local printer, making it a per machine
printer, but since the port name is a UNC the network redirector will redirect the print jobs to the printer share on the network.

Bill Peele
Microsoft Enterprise Support

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Danny Dang said:
I have multi-user using a workstation, but I want to creat (map) only one
network printer (not local printer) on that PC SO all users who logon
that PC can use it without add a new one for him or her. I,m stuck... Can
some one know how to setup a network printer on win 2K- PRO for vary user
profiles?
Click to expand...

It's an annoying fact (IMHO) that network printers are per-user instead of
per-machine.

That said, though, thank goodness for per-machine printers, which first
became available with Windows 2000.

For more information, see

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm

Regards,

Bill
 
Bill,
As I had a similar pb, I tried your solution. All came ok but when
clicking on "finish", I got an error message:
"An unexpected error occured while setting up the printer. This setup
failed (error code: S5,5L)" and the printer couldn't be installed.
My configuration is different : the machine with the shared printer
(Canon LBP660, win2000 drivers available) is millenium. My PC is
win2000 pro and I want to use the Canon printer.
It seems that I cannot connect to this printer. What do the error
codes mean? Is there an issue?
Thank you.
 
pedrito said:
As I had a similar pb, I tried your solution. All came ok but when
clicking on "finish", I got an error message: "An unexpected error
occured while setting up the printer. This setup failed (error code:
S5,5L)" and the printer couldn't be installed. My configuration is
different : the machine with the shared printer (Canon LBP660, win2000
drivers available) is millenium. My PC is win2000 pro and I want to use
the Canon printer. It seems that I cannot connect to this printer. What
do the error codes mean? Is there an issue? Thank you.
Click to expand...

I have had nothing but problems using down-level print servers (i.e.
sharing a printer from Windows 9x/Me). I never recommend it. Always use the
NT family for print servers.

Regards,

Bill
 
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From: pedrito <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.printing
Subject: Re: How to make a printer visible for other users from win 2K
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:53:42 +0100

Bill,
As I had a similar pb, I tried your solution. All came ok but when
clicking on "finish", I got an error message:
"An unexpected error occured while setting up the printer. This setup
failed (error code: S5,5L)" and the printer couldn't be installed.
My configuration is different : the machine with the shared printer
(Canon LBP660, win2000 drivers available) is millenium. My PC is
win2000 pro and I want to use the Canon printer.
It seems that I cannot connect to this printer. What do the error
codes mean? Is there an issue?
Thank you.
--

I have no idea what S5,5L means. I have never seen an error code that looked like this. Is it possible it is specific to the
Canon driver?

So the printer is shared on the Windows Me system and you are trying to connect to the share from Windows 2000 Pro,
correct? Do you already have the driver installed on the Windows 2000 system, since I don't think Windows Me can host
the drivers for other operating systems? If the driver is installed you could try setting it to LPT2 and then use

net use lpt2 \\<win me>\<print share> /persistant:yes

to redirect LPT2 to the shared printer. This would still be treated as a local printer by the Windows 2000 system and would
still be available for all users.

Bill Peele
Microsoft Enterprise Support

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