Access denied when adding TCP/IP printer port in Windows 2008

You get the following error when adding a printer using a TCP/IP port:

add_printer_access_denied

The problem is that you need to “elevate to administrator privileges” (run as administrator) to add a TCP/IP port. I have’nt found any way to do that when adding a printer. The solutions is to logon as administrator in the console and then add the print and TCP/IP port.

Update:
To add a printer as administrator do the following.
1. Open printers in control panel.
2. Right click in the white area. Choose “Run as administrator”/”Add printer…”.

privileges

6 Comments

George says:

2011-01-14 at 14:00 /

Thanks for this :)
jacques says:

2012-07-26 at 11:44 /

thanks, this works, run as admin
Abs says:

2015-07-23 at 19:35 /

I can’t get this. Right clicking blank space doesn’t do anything and I can’t right click Devices and Printers with any result. Can you explain properly?
Owen MacPherson says:

2016-02-26 at 19:37 /

Worked for me too, thanks!
Becosses says:

2017-02-10 at 15:42 /

There is the right way to get it 100% success!

http://www.geeksontech.com/an-error-occurred-during-port-configuration-access-is-denied/
Rustam Sariyev says:

2017-05-29 at 09:29 /

Thanks
great

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Access denied when adding TCP/IP printer port in Windows 2008

Daniel

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