[Casper] non-admin printer access..

[John McLaughlin]

Hi Craig,
		The issue is for home users who need to install their printers.  We use
Self Service policies for all school-based printer installation.    

John McLaughlin
Technical Support Specialist
Newton Public Schools


"Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> writes:
>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" <[
>fcp://@newton.k12.ma.us,%231001922/Mailbox/John_McLaughlin@newton.k12.ma.us
>]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." <[
>fcp://@newton.k12.ma.us,%231001922/Mailbox/ERNSTCS@uwec.edu
>]ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> writes:
>are these ip printers or local to the computer?
>
>Craig Ernst
>UW-Eau Claire
>(715) 836-3639
>
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:51 PM, "John McLaughlin" <[
>fcp://@newton.k12.ma.us,%231001922/Mailbox/John_McLaughlin@newton.k12.ma.us
>]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us <[
>mailto: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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