[Casper] non-admin printer access..

[Ernst, Craig S.]

Ok so let's get the goals sorted out here because I think we may be missing part of what you're asking thus far.

If I read your original question properly you are asking how to ADD and REMOVE IP based printers for non-admin users, but perhaps the interpretation is incorrect.

If you are using The Casper Suite all of that capability is built-in. Add the printer to a system, launch Casper Admin, add the printer to the JSS, and then deploy that printer using policies any number of ways for non-admin users. If it's a printer that uses built-in leopard driver packs like HP or Epson, etc then you need to make sure the systems that are going to use that same printer also have the current version of the driver pack. If not, you will run into QUEUE issues.

For example in our labs it's a login policy that maps the printers for that lab and sets the default. For others you could use the self service piece to allow them to select a printer available to that location. As part of that for example with an HP printer supported in the Leopard HP drivers pack you can strip out the HP drivers PKG from the installer DVD and add that directly into the JSS and deploy it as well.

Now the queue part is different, and that's what others have touched on. I haven't had any complaints about that yet since I made sure my drivers on the client matched from the machine I added the printer from, but I'm going to look into the last thing Jeff just posted. =)

Craig E


On 4/3/09 7:54 AM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote:

Sorry, I should have filled in the gaps.  They're running 10.5.6 and they're all ip queues.

John McLaughlin
Technical Support Specialist
Newton Public Schools


"Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> writes:
are these ip printers or local to the computer?

Craig Ernst
UW-Eau Claire
(715) 836-3639


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On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:51 PM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us <mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> > wrote:





Has anyone figured how to enable printer access for non-admins?  I've got users logging on their computers via their AD account but since they are logging on as a standard user, they are not able to add or remove printers.  I've been doing some reading and it seems that Apple changed the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file which controls this to disable access to non-admins.  The problem is that these users are supposed to be able to install printers when at home but they currently need an admin to authorize the install.  WGM doesn't seem to have anything to do with this and everything I've found on the web which deals with editing the cupsd,conf file isn't working.


John McLaughlin
Technical Support Specialist
Newton Public Schools



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