Okay, it's a lab. I installed an hp4100n on the server(2000 server) with drivers and install. \\server\hp4200 goes right to it and installs. When another of the 1000 users logs on, no printer. They have no rights on workstation; everything comes from the server. I installed the printer as admin, copied the entire admin docume~1 folder to the server and fed it back to the workstations, overwriting defaultuser and defaultuser.windows. I deleted all other users but admin and it worked on two out of 30 ws. I ended up doing a network ghost to fix it. Well, they got another printer, which I installed on the server lpt1. I need to actually know how to make the printer stay for users. Can someone please tell me what I don't know?

This maybe a shot in the dark but go into admin tools then computer management, users and groups right click on the users you want to allow use of printers, select properties there should be a permissions or something you can set restrictions on create a new one and then "edit" find the printers and then allow the user to browse printer directories, there are otehr settings you can set but i cant quite remember at this time. I only know this as the college i go to runs XP and 200 server and most of the time i have to set up a printer every time i logon. Let me know how it goes Lapz

Thanks for the answer, but I fixed it before I got it. I Installed the printer as local Admin, logging on as domain Admin when prompted for permission to use it. Then I logged off and back on as domain admin and copied the ntsuer.dat file from C:\docume~1\local Admin to defaultuser and delaultuser.windows. That did it. The problem wasn't permission, it was just making the printer stay no matter who logs on.