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Do you need local admin rights to map network printer over IPP?

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    I have some users experiencing unable to install network printer over IPP due to the lack of administrator's rights on their PCs. Mean while, other do NOT have the issues. To work around, I have to add them to local admin group, and then, they map network printers fine!

    Do they need to have admin rights to their PCs to install printer driver over IPP? Thanks.

    Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:59 PM
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    Hi,

    Thanks for the post.

    On the client computer, if the Microsoft® Internet Explorer security settings for the Web content zone of the print server are set to medium or higher, Windows uses an HTTP port to create an IPP printer connection. Because using an HTTP port requires the use to install a local printer queue on the client computer, unlike a true Point-and-Print connection which uses RPC, the user must have either Local Admin or Power User privileges, including the additional Load and unload device drivers privilege, on the local machine.

    For more information, you could take a look at Printing Effectively with Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)

    Hope this helps.

    Miles

     

     

     

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    Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:47 AM
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    Hi,

    Thanks for the post.

    On the client computer, if the Microsoft® Internet Explorer security settings for the Web content zone of the print server are set to medium or higher, Windows uses an HTTP port to create an IPP printer connection. Because using an HTTP port requires the use to install a local printer queue on the client computer, unlike a true Point-and-Print connection which uses RPC, the user must have either Local Admin or Power User privileges, including the additional Load and unload device drivers privilege, on the local machine.

    For more information, you could take a look at Printing Effectively with Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)

    Hope this helps.

    Miles

     

     

     

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    Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:47 AM
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    For XP, yes most of the time the user has to be admin on the machine.  Vista and Windows 7 allow users the rights to add a local printer.

    You will find that the people not having any issues creating HTTP printers are admins on their machines OR the print drivers are already installed so the install actually uses the local driver rather than the one from the server.  The file still gets downloaded but the driver install is from drivers.cab on the local machine.

    Alan Morris Windows Printing Team
    Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:29 PM
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