Error Message: You Do Not Have Sufficient Access to Your Machine to Connect to the Selected Printer

When you use the Add Printer Wizard to install a network printer, you may receive the following error message:

This issue may occur if the account you used to log on to the network is not a member of the local Administrators or Power Users group.

To resolve this issue, use either of the following methods.

Method 1

1. Add your domain user account to the local Administrators group:
   1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
   2. Expand Local Users and Groups, and then click Groups.
   3. In the right pane of the Computer Management dialog box, double-click Administrators, and then click Add.
   4. In the Look in box, click your domain, click your account name, click Add, and then click OK two times.
2. Install the network printer.

Method 2

Install the printer on a Windows 2000 print server, and then share it with users across the network. This method uses the point-and-print functionality in Windows 2000. When a user connects to a printer on a print server, the connecting client looks for the appropriate driver on the print server, and then automatically downloads it. If you use this method, make sure that you install printer drivers for all the supported operating systems in your corporate network. Note that adding printers to the print server may require that you log on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators, Print Operators or the Server Operators group.

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