said by not :In addition, the printer shares you're seeing in AD can also be security controlled to give just certain people access to print to it. If you aren't a member of a group or your individual account isn't added to the printer share to have access, you won't be able to print to it.
nah that's not an issue here. I have admin rights to everything. (as does everyone else in IT) And none of our printers have security restrictions on them.
I have to ask though... if it's printing via IP direct printing, what's the big deal? It's actually more efficient this way anyway, you're asking the printer to do all the spooling work as taking one thing out of the chain by not adding additional work on the 2003 server. Where's the issue here? Yes, it's not connected via the share, but who cares... in a way, you're actually breaking the security the company has probably put in place to keep people from printing on printers they don't want you to... unless you connect to them directly via IP and skip the server middleman who's providing access security.
Also, 2003 server has some limitations in terms of printer share access to a Mac, so this may be some where your issues are coming from. Do yourself a favor and if it's printing via IP, leave it at that. Unless you're going to lose your job over printing to a printer you're not supposed to, congratulations, you've solved your problem... now go on with life.
I see your point. And agree with the efficiency when adding via IP. But if the CEO or any other user who has a Mac, has to add a printer, they're not going to know how to do it via IP. The simplicity of adding a printer from the list is a much easier way for the end user to go about doing it.
Also in our company all printers are accessible from anyone. Printers are basically assigned by location of where the end user is at in the building.
And I was thinking 2003 might be an issue here. And had a thought of moving the printers to a win 7 server. But that would be a HUGE task...moving every printer individually.
oooor...I could simply copy the printers that would be used by Mac to a Win 7 server and see if that helps.
hmmm...any thoughts on if that would work better?