User Error » Printing http://daniel.streefkerkonline.com Ramblings of a tinkering SysAdmin Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:41:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Vista: “Access denied” error when attempting to map a printer http://daniel.streefkerkonline.com/vista-access-denied-error-when-attempting-to-map-a-printer/ http://daniel.streefkerkonline.com/vista-access-denied-error-when-attempting-to-map-a-printer/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:26:53 +0000 Daniel http://daniel.streefkerkonline.com/vista-access-denied-error-when-attempting-to-map-a-printer/ Continue reading →]]> Another printing-related issue I experienced this week was as follows:

  1. I set up some new printers on the print server, and shared them out
  2. I then used Ricoh’s “Default Editor” application to lock down the colour printing options
  3. When attempting to map these printers from a workstation, the user experienced an “Access Denied” error, and the printer would not be connected

I left the problem overnight, and luckily had a brainwave; maybe it was something to do with permissions on the driver files themselves on the print server? Sure enough, resetting the permissions on child items within the %systemroot%\system32\spool\DRIVERS\w32x86 folder solved the problem.

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