[LAN] Cannot Remove Phantom Printer

[MrGuy]

Greetings all,

I'm an administrator on a Windows Server 2000 professional network. Our users have restricted access using group policies. We recently re-installed XP on a PC and renamed it. This PC used to host a shared printer. Now restricted users that were once sharing that printer still have the old icon in there printer folder referencing the old PC name. When trying to delete it in their login it says "access denied" (of course) and when logging on as administrator it's not present. Any ideas how to delete this phantom?

Edit: Please follow the rules! Topic title changed.

Edited April 12, 2006 by Gouki

[RogueSpear]

You may want to see if the printer was published to Active Directory. If it was, Active Directory printer pruning will delete it after some time (I forget the default time period).

[eyeball]

log on as local admin and open printers and faxes and go to file -> server properties and see if the driver is still listed, if it is remove it. see if that works.

if not write a login script for the user/s that deletes the printer