Posted July 5, 200717 yr 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.
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