User Codes on Print Server

[Guest]

OK I have a customer that has 100 users broken into 4 departments. He wants 4 print drivers on the server (accounting printer, admin printer, ect). These printers are physically the same machine printing with different user codes. He wants to have the user code defaulted on the server and pushed down to the users. I have gone into Properties -> Advanced -> Printing Defaults and put the code there however it is not pushing down to the clients (the color default is though).

The machine is:
Konica Minolta bizhub C451
with Account Track (Password Only)

[rthonpm]

I don't think a user code is an option that a server will push. Windows logic as to what is a user level setting and what is a global setting maybe?
Any idea if there's a different address for each driver, or if he's just stringing along the 'different' versions of the driver along the same IP the server may just be nuking them out.
Tell him to just add each driver onto the server one at a time over the space of a few hours and give people instructions how to set their group's code through their Start Menu settings and then lock the box down so it won't accept any job without a code...

[jfultz]

I am with you on the thought that Windows will just not allow that setting to be pulled down. I went ahead and called Konica and he said the same thing, so that is what I will tell the customer. Thanks for the reply

[TheOwl]

Windows can and will push this setting down. How else do you think that you can default a driver to B&W or set the avaliable options??? As long as the settings are made to the physical driver it self or to the 'PRINTING DEFAULTS'. If the settings are made under 'PRINTING PREFERENCES' on the server, then the clients won't get those settings.

Are your clients running through a Terminal Server? What happens if you make changes other than the User Authentication / Account Track? What sort of security permissions do the users have over the print queue / driver?

[rthonpm]

Printing defaults can be pushed down from a server, but anything that has a setting beginning with 'User' will not draw from the server. In Windows logic, that is a setting that the user account at the PC level will change. After all, on a shared PC, network printers are considered a user level device. If I put two user accounts on the same NTFS based OS PC and only install one network printer, only the user I add the printer on to will be able to see it as an available printer.

[dogsbody]

The short answer is yes it can be done, however not with a standard driver.
There was once a special C450 driver with this feature, it was not considered that many would want it so it was only avaliable on the tech website not the public one. However I just checked and it is no longer on even the tech site.

You may be stuck with the "pop up authentication dialog when printing" check box unless you can convince Konica to modify the driver.

Cheers.

[jfultz]

I tried it on a Kyocera TASKalfa 250ci, and it works, but the "user codes" are put into the driver via Properties not Preferences like the Konica.

So I am calling Konica to see about a special driver like the one for the C450.