passwording network printer

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neondawg

I have a simple question I am attempting to password a printer on a
win2000 machine so that only administrators can print and for any
other user to print from the local machine or another machine it will
require a username and password from a administrator to print is this
even possible?

Thanks,
Neondawg
 
You can apply NTFS permissions to printers as you would any other
object. Search your Windows 2000 help files for "printer permissions".

To use objects when you don't have specific permissions use impersonation.

"Windows NT allows one process to take on the security attributes of
another through a technique called impersonation. For example, a server
process typically impersonates a client process to complete a task
involving objects to which the server does not normally have access."

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../server/reskit/en-us/net/chptr2.mspx?mfr=true

Example:

net use x: \\ServerName\ShareName PASSWORD /user:DomainName\MaryJane
/savecred /persistent:yes

John
 
On a stupid note will how force it to promt for a password or username
when they attemot to print?
 
By setting share permissions on the object. Control Panel|Printers|"local
printer"|Properties| Sharing/Security

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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ok now thank you but it simply says no access to the print it will not
prompt for account what do I need to configure for this in the sharing/
security on 2000
 
Add the user account and password to the sharing machine.

Install TCP/IP protocol on each, make sure they're both on the same subnet
something like 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 subnet mask 255.255.255.0, no
default gateway. You'll want to create an account (in Users and Passwords)
on each Win2k machine(s) with the username and password that you use to
logon to the other machine(s) with. Then you'll need to share out the
resource(s) with permissions for those users. Also make sure they're all
part of the same workgroup.

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista machine, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista needs to
authenticate the user. If the user account doesn't exist in it's local
account database, then access will be denied.



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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
ok that makes since however i want to to ask for a password before
allowing anything except administrators from printing is this possible
if i read what you put correctly i have tryed this
 
If you set the share permissions correctly then there would be no need for a
password challenge.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
oh well thought there was a way to do it

on a side not is there a way on logoff to print the current session
time to the printer?
 
Yes, add your script here using the group policy editor
%systemroot%\system32\gpedit.msc

User Config\Windows Settings\Scripts\Logon/Logoff
Computer Config\Windows Settings\Scripts\Startup/Shutdown


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
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