You need to request elevated privilege even as admin to change settings on
the printer.
Use Printmanagement.msc to modify the printer and port settings. Print
Management in Administration Tools.
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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"duckhunter" <duckhunter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi can anyone help me. I am a little bit computer literate. Here is my
> prob. Trying to us my vista business laptop to print via a roline usb
> print
> server which is plugged in to my router. I install as per the
> instructions
> using a local port then need to add a network printer port. Vista will
> not
> let me add this port even though it is in the selection list. Also if I
> try
> do it uisng tcp/ip I can not choose the configuration option. Yes I am
> logged
> on as the administrator. I do know how to set up the priner server as I
> have
> done this in the past using a pc and laptop both running windows xp.
>
> Has anyone else had this prob. If so can you please explain in basic
> terms
> how I may by able te rectify this prob as it is driving me crazy.
>
> Let me know if i need to try and explain this better.
>
> Thanks