printer only seen by one user

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I've installed a network Canon printer while being logged
as an administrator. When a regular user logs in, the
printer is not there. I need to install the driver again.
(prior, I need to change the user for an admin).I have 5
other printers on the network (diff. makes) and they all
show no matter who's logged on.
Help!!
 
Thanks for that reply,
Just curious, how would you explain the fact that my
other printers are available to any user?
e.g. port: \\dellsrvr\lexmark

Gaston
 
Distinquishing between "Local" and "Network" printers can be a bit
confusing. See "Printer" and other related definitions (e.g. Port) on
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Glossary.htm.

Local Printers are always available to anyone that logs on.

Just because one communicates with a printer over the network does not
necessarily make it a "Network Printer" in terms of Microsoft
Printing/Networking terminology. For example, if the printer is on a
Standard TCP/IP port, the print device (see Print Device
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Glossary.htm) is network connected via a LAN
adapter, but on the computer that has the Standard TCP/IP port for that
print device, the "Printer" (printer software object/construct) is a "Local
Printer".

If you open Printers and Faxes on a client computer, select File, Server
Properties then the Ports tab, if you see a "Port" with a name like
"\\computername\printername" then that is a "Local Printer" on a "Local
Port" not a "Network Printer" (see
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterNoPP.htm).

Or: right click on the printer (in the client's Printers and Faxes folder),
select Properties and select the Ports tab. If the Printer is a true
"Network Printer", then you see the ports on the print server. If the
printer is really a "Local Printer" you will see the ports on the client
computer (e.g. \\computername\printername).

Or: in the client's Printers and Faxes, if the Name: is of the form
"printername on computername", this is a Network Printer. If the name does
not have "... on computername", the printer is most likely a Local Printer
(it is possible to use a name of this form for a true Local Printer, but
that's not very common).

If the printer is a Local Printer, you can change its name on the client
independantly of the name on the print server (if there is one). If the
printer is a Network Printer, you can not change the printer's name on the
client; however, if you are an Administrator on the print server, and you
change the name via a client's Printer's Properties General tab, this
actually changes the name of the printer on the print server and this new
name will be seen by all client computers.
 
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