I am running Windows Server 2008 (not R2) for a print server and I have a program that needs to write to the UNC path of the network printer. I have found that anyone in the Print Operators group is able to write to the UNC path of the network printer, but standard users are not. I have tried adding the same permissions as the Print Operators group to a user, but when I try to write to the UNC path, I get Access Denied. I cannot add users to the Print Operators group because it gives too many permissions. What permissions do I need to set to allow standard users to print to the UNC path of a network printer?
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The user has to have write permissions to the spool directory (c:\windows\system32\spool\printers). Once the Users group was given write permissions, I was able to print to the UNC path of the network printer.
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How does one grant these permissions in Windows 10? – Superdooperhero Jan 10 '19 at 19:14