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Guest Logon - Single Printer Only - No Interactive Logon For Computers

I would like to have guest account that only allows access to a specific network printer, and nothing else. I do not want this account to be able to log onto any compturs interactively. I pretty much want it to be denied to every other resource out there. Is this possible?

vtobusman

Why yes it is....
What version of windows are you using so that we may be able to assist you better?

J. Smith

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The client could be anything, it's a printer for customers and salesmen who come in and need to do some quick printing. FYI: The user will be authenticating through W2K Active Directory.

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J. Smith

ASKER

they are laptops which i have no control over if it's a customer

the soho print server would not work since employees will be printing to it and accessing other servers.

vtobusman

is it a network printer ie it has an ip address if so the so thing will work just put it in the dmz..
other than that..
you would need to setup a server with 2 nic in it and dhcp...

i nic connected to your network and the other nic to the network for the customers..
setup dhcp on that interface so that the customer can get an address and the server just set it up as a stand alone print server... remove all gatways on it so the it wont rout from 1 network to the next...

um other than that good luck

riannuzzi

If you only want to access the printer do this. Have the client login locally NOT into the domain. Set up Standard TCP/IP printing using RAW to the IP address of that printer.

J. Smith

ASKER

What i'm looking for here is for the customer/sales employee to be able to type : \\domain-controller, right click on the printer and click connect. Is this possible to do without giving them access to any other resource?

riannuzzi

Yes you can do that. Just enable your guest account, put in a password, go to the print server properties, go to the printer specific properties and allow the guest account to print only on that printer through the security settings.

Netbios to the print server and click connect. You will then be mapped to the printer. Of course to do this you must have a computer account in the domain and login to the domain with the guest account. You will not be able to login locally to the station and do this.

J. Smith

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yes, but the guest account is a part of the everyone group which has access to shares with security set to everyone. although those type of shares have low security risks, I do not want customers to have access to them. therefore, I need an account that is capable of listing printers attached to the domain, connect to them and that's about it. maybe this is not possible?

riannuzzi

Customers can only see them if they are shared, it is the folder permissions not the share permissions that decides whether you can access them or not. On a default win2k networks guests can't access any resources... it is you who decides that, anyway you look at it, if the computer has an account in the domain you are at risk, regardless of what username they use. If you are that scared, and i would too, do not have them log-into the domain. Have them login locally and use LPR or RAW to connect directly to a printer, these items will be saved with the profile and they will no have access to your domain....