Problem with printer setup using shortcut from another PCs locally attached printer

[Guest DannyBoy]

Hi there all

 

I have a number of computers with multiple users on each machine,

that

need access to a printer that is attached to one of the machines and

shared out. e.g. PC1 has the printer physically attached and shared.

All users of PC2, PC3 & PC4 need access to the printer. I have

discovered that if I place the users of PC2,...,PC4 in the local

administrators group for each machine, I can log in with local admin

rights, navigate to the printer e.g. \\pc1\Printers and Faxs

\LocallyAttachedPrinter right click on icon and place a shortcut on

my

desktop. I can than copy this shortcut to C:\Documents and Settings

\All Users\Desktop. The idea is that by double clicking on this

shortcut the user can attach to the printer which also as a bonus

sets

itself up as their default printer. Cool as this solution could be

applied to hot desks etc and I would not have to get each user of

each

machine to log in and then attach the printer manually.

 

 

I am wondering if anyone knows how to do this without having to place

the users in local admin group as this is obviously undesirable.