This mysterious message was well documented by Microsoft.
Everyone knows that any user in a domain, even down to the user with least privileges, is able to connect to a network shared printer, right?
That is what I thought, until one of my users tried to connect to a shared printer and got the following error message:
Other users on my network can connect to shared printers with no problems. I did not remember creating a group policy to cause this. What is going on?
I found a Microsoft Knowledge base article (888046) with the answer. The first cause mentioned is trying to install a third party driver. Although the driver is from HP, I have never had this problem before with HP. The second cause had to do with the DNS setup. In my case, for this subnet, I did not have the DNS reverse lookup zone configured properly. To fix the problem quickly, I gave the user administrative permissions to the local computer and he was able to connect to the shared printer. I also created a reverse lookup zone for this subnet to solve what I believe was the main cause of my problem.
