cannot install network printers without administrator access

coparofl said:

thats what I do bob :)

is it really working for you?

Yes, that is the way I do it.

It could be that having it set to no notification just automatically answers no, so you may need to change it up one level and try it.

~Lordbob

yeah, the UAC in win7 is actually useful in that respect.

This is how we have it setup at our company, as we do not want users to install printers on their own.

You can setup a GPO to allow users to install printers, by default the setting is set to not allow users to install.

Here are a couple of posts with useful info about setting up a gpo to allow for this.

Allowing regular users to install their own printers

Control Printer Driver Installation Security

Sounds like your users are locked down where they cannot install drivers. Can they install software at all? If it is prompting you for admin credentials when you try to install a print driver, then they do not have privileges to install software, especially not drivers.

The solution for this is a gpo to allow users to install print drivers or have your users setup as local powerusers.

In win2k8, you can push printers to users via group policy without using vbscript (new to server2k8) this may also be worth a try. But I tried to do this and it did not seem to work unless the driver had previously been installed.

coparofl said:

still failed bob.

it was this that did the trick!

Control Printer Driver Installation Security

Ah yes, that would do it.

~Lordbob

Right on! I'm glad it worked.