[zeb]

You’ve probably sorted this out by now, but…

Our servers are at 10.6, so I don’t have a 10.5 setup to test this on. In printer management for 10.6, there is an option “Allow user to modify the printer list (Not available in OS X 10.5)”. In my experience on 10.6 clients, if that option is unchecked, the printers will not show up in System Preferences like you described.

You could try going into details and manually editing com.apple.mcxprinting. Under “Always” add a boolean key “RequireAdminToAddPrinters” and set it to false. Of course, doing that will allow your users to modify the printer list…

So, I have no great solution, just experience to share.

[zeb]

I’ve had trouble getting this working, too. Today I modified the Distribution file, changing [b]rootVolumeOnly[/b] to [b]”false”[/b] and that seems to have done the trick. I hope that helps.

-zeb

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