Setup printers on workstations as a standard user

[jmharris903]

Greetings All,
I have a general admin question about my workstations. Our environment has about 10 laptops that frequently travel out of the office. Currently I am converting local user accounts (formerly admin accounts) to be standard accounts and setting up a local administrator on each that I will use for centralized management. (Also planning to migrate users to WGM shortly). As I go through this process, I realize that users will no longer be able to setup printers on their own. This is particularly problematic at times when they will be traveling to client sites and might need to print to new printers.

Is there some method to allow standard users the ability to setup new printers? I have explored the new Parental Controls in Leopard 10.5.1 (there is an option to allow users to administer printers), but upon testing, this doesn’t seem to work.

Any guidance would be most appreciated.

[luke]

Ping!

I really need this functionality too. I suspect we can edit /etc/authorization somehow to allow regular users (or users of a specific “Printer Admins” group) to administer their own printers. My more immediate problem is that printers on my clients have become “paused” and users are not able to unpause them without an administrator password.

Does anyone have a solution?

[sketch]

Is there a command-line equivalent to what happens when you select a directory printer in the Add Printer app? That autodetection of printer driver would make scripting a ton easier

[ahancock]

oddly, I still get

client-error-not-authorized

when dealing with a network account coming off a novell edirectory integration

nor can a local-only non-admin make changes…

Do we also need a change here?
# Restrict access to configuration files…

AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order allow,deny
Allow localhost

or perhaps some opening of permissions on other key files?

[ahancock]

what I get when I try is

E [22/Sep/2008:12:21:09 -0500] Invalid peer credentials for “DidierM” – got 1, expected 100132!

where didierm’s ID shows:

id didierm

uid=100132(DidierM) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),110 and others….

but since I see he’s in staff, changing line 14’s admin to staff seemed to help

of course, we do need to give perms to other related folders, but this is working…

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