Re: [WinMac] Re: NT workstations & Apple LW IIg
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:11:44 -0500
At 10:02 AM 3/23/99 -0500, Alex
wrote:
>>2) I've given the student login "print" access only to the printer. Works
>>fine. I change this to "manage documents" access, and student logins can
>>no longer print. Why is this?
>
>The manage documents right do NOT include print rights. They were
>designed for people who only manage print jobs but shouldn't be printing.
>Kind of silly if you ask me, but I'm sure someone on this list will find
>a justification for it, and I won't mention Dan by name ;)
Yuck Fou! :)
>
>>1) When I set up the printer on an NT, it automatically sets the "Capture
>>printer" option on the port, which is a pain, because then nothing else can
>>see the printer. What's the use of this option, and why is it on by
>>default?
>
>This is to capture the Appletalk broadcast and stop it from showing up on
>the Mac's chooser so that everything will print through the NT server,
>using it as a print server rather then printing directly to the Appletalk
>printer. In my experience it causes a lot of problems and I would
>strongly advise against it.
Hooray... We agree!
>>Naively, I thought that "manage documents" includes the "print" access
>>permissions, but perhaps that's not the case. If so, how do I go about
>>allowing students to print as well as manage documents (pause/cancel
>>printing) without giving them "Full control"? ("Full control" is no good,
>>as it would allow them to change the printer settings.)
>
>Just make a group (or 2, I don't have NT here in front of me and you
>might need to make 2) called printers/managers that icludes both the
>print rights and the manage documents right, then add the students to
>this (these) groups.
>
>Alex Dearden
>pata@doglover.com
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