Why can't I rename a printer? It's current name is the network path. Rename isn't an option on right click. User has administrator rights.
WinXP Professional
Thanks in advance.
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Why can't I rename a printer? It's current name is the network path. Rename isn't an option on right click. User has administrator rights.
WinXP Professional
Thanks in advance.
Just so I can get this straight....The printer in question is a network printer you are accessing over the network from a print server?
If that is the case then I do not know of anyway in Win2K or WinXP to change the printer name on the client side...The only way I know of is to change the Netwrok printer share name on the Server side (That I know o...I have tried before).
Yep, it's a network printer accessed across the network. In Win98, you can rename the printer on your pc to a recognizable name. You're not actually renaming the PRINTER, but more just the name of it listed under Start/Settings/Printers. In WinXP, you can't although WinXP HELP says that you can if you have print manage permissions. Where are these permissions located? If I go to the "User Setup", I don't see any printer permissions and they're not located under Printers.
I just now did it with XP Pro. Start/Settings/Printers and I right clicked on the network printer down the hall and renamed it for "my station"....
Then why oh why can't I?
Sorry....had a Wizard of Oz flashback.
Seriously though...anyone know why I can't?