Internet Explorer remote printing problem

[GregT]

I have a desktop and a laptop both with Win 7 Home Prem. A HP LaserJet M1005 MFP is connected to the desktop. Everything works except printing from IE to the remote printer.
IE hangs while it tries to spool to the printer spool. I cannot cancel the printer spool, all I can do is end the IE task via the task manager.
If I run IE as Administrator or turn off UAC it prints successfully.

I remember having a similar problem with Vista, deleting the remote printer and adding it back again solved the problem - not this time!

I have the latest HP driver downloaded from the HP site.

I've tried changing the security settings of the SERVERS folder in windows/system32/spool giving the user full control, without success.

It seems IE is trying to do an Administrator task somewhere without asking permission.

Any ideas!
Thanks

 

[zigzag3143]

I have a desktop and a laptop both with Win 7 Home Prem. A HP LaserJet M1005 MFP is connected to the desktop. Everything works except printing from IE to the remote printer.
IE hangs while it tries to spool to the printer spool. I cannot cancel the printer spool, all I can do is end the IE task via the task manager.
If I run IE as Administrator or turn off UAC it prints successfully.

I remember having a similar problem with Vista, deleting the remote printer and adding it back again solved the problem - not this time!

I have the latest HP driver downloaded from the HP site.

I've tried changing the security settings of the SERVERS folder in windows/system32/spool giving the user full control, without success.

It seems IE is trying to do an Administrator task somewhere without asking permission.

Any ideas!
Thanks

Sometimes a printer will need to be installed as local to give it the correct permissions. If it is successful when run as admin a workaround would of course be to do that. I dont think giving users full control is the answer for the print spooler is probably owned by a system process. That is one thing you can check.

Ken

 

[GregT]

I tried that - connected printer to the laptop, I then had the same problem printing from the Desktop IE to the remote printer. Messing with the security settings was more to do with identifying the area causing the problem - yes System is the owner.

As for a workaround I prefer Google Chrome and it just a question of convincing the wife to also use Chrome. But every problem I've ever had on my PC has been solved by searching the online forums, except for this one. I'm not prepared to give up just yet!