Scanner on parallel port, Permissions

microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory

10 Mar 2006 12:10 PM

xxxxyz@abv.bg

Hi,

I have a Windows server 2003 Active directory domain.

On one of the machines (workstation) I have a scanner (Umax astra
2000P) connected with parallel port, but only administrators can scan
documents. Other users can not find the scanner (using a program which
test the scaner).

I want all users can use it.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

10 Mar 2006 3:56 PM

Paul Williams [MVP]

I've seen this problem. Basically, the scanner software is dreadful crap.
Ideally you will update.

There's a couple of options:

Using REGMON and FILEMON (from www.sysinternals) you track what permissions
are needed on what folders and registry keys and grant that access to a
group.

You can also make all the users administrators on this ONE PC. However this
is an insecure way of doing it, and I shouldn't really be recommending this
to you. I only mention it as this is what most people seem to end up doing
anyway!

Ideally, you will update the scanning software and/ or the scanner itself.

--
Paul Williams
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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