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Old 05-12-2007   #1 (permalink)
Michael Brown


 
 

Vista printing with mandatory profiles

I have a Windows 2003 Server (R1) with Vista Business Clients. I have
configured a mandatory profile and it works fine except for printing. The
server shares 2 printers (HP Laserjets 3500 & 6P). When I print to the
HP3500 from Word I get an error but this works ok if I install the printer
locally on that PC - I thought the drivers would be downloaded automatically
from the server?. I have already downloaded the Vista compatiable drivers
for the HP3500 onto the print server.
If a user also trys to print to the HP Laserjet 6p they get asked to install
the driver - shouldn't this also be installed from the server automatically.

The network printers were installed when I set up the mandatory profile on
a client PC. I didn't have these issues when I had Windows XP Pro on the
PC's.

Thanks



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Old 05-14-2007   #2 (permalink)
Michael Brown


 
 

Re: Vista printing with mandatory profiles

I think I have sorted this problem - I found a MS Whitepaper on "Point and
Print Security" that contains new settings for Group Policy that relate to
Vista..


"Michael Brown" <steve@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Windows 2003 Server (R1) with Vista Business Clients. I have
>configured a mandatory profile and it works fine except for printing. The
>server shares 2 printers (HP Laserjets 3500 & 6P). When I print to the
>HP3500 from Word I get an error but this works ok if I install the printer
>locally on that PC - I thought the drivers would be downloaded
>automatically from the server?. I have already downloaded the Vista
>compatiable drivers for the HP3500 onto the print server.
> If a user also trys to print to the HP Laserjet 6p they get asked to
> install the driver - shouldn't this also be installed from the server
> automatically.
>
> The network printers were installed when I set up the mandatory profile on
> a client PC. I didn't have these issues when I had Windows XP Pro on the
> PC's.
>
> Thanks
>



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