10.11 Printer Proxy permissions problem

Same problem here.

Printers and Application restrictions are configured with Profile Manager (server 5.2) to multiple Macs running El Capitan and Sierra.

The printers do work, but the error shows up every time the users print.

-Parental controls is not running on any of the lab Macs

-I added ~/Library/Printers to allow folders with no effect.

-Since the accounts are OD accounts and the printers come from Profile Manager, there are no printers in /Library/Printers/Installed_Printers.

Anyone find a solution for OD/Profile Manager management?

Did you ever make any progress on this? It seems that the Restrictions profile that has allowed folders is not respecting ~/Library/ for network accounts. It allows "apps" to be launched from ~/Library/ for local admin and standard users. It also works if I create a network user who's home path is created on the local mac in the /Users/ folder. It doesn't work for network accounts and mobile accounts, even though the mobile account is stored in the /Users/ folder.

I made progress on this. I can now print. My account was showing up as Managed in System Preferences->Users and Groups. For some reason Parental Controls was enabled and that was overriding my Restrictions profile that had ~/Library as an allowed folder. I am not sure how Parental Control became enabled, but I am now able to print without seeing the PrintProxy error. It may have been some old hold over with my account from WGM MCX. We still use WGM and MCX for a few things but I am making the full switch to profiles soon.

I have this same problem. I upgraded to El Capitan and now all my student MacBook Airs get the same message "You don't have permission to use the application "PrinterProxy." I do have Parental Controls on and I need them on. Is there a fix for this issue?

Andy Elbert

I was getting a similar issue.

My Environment:

OSX 10.11.6

Local Account with parental controls (Students used this account to type a paper since internet and other resources are restricted)

I used the following script to fix the issue (Please test on a non-production machine. This may not take into account other factors in your environment):

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#!/bin/sh

rm -rf /Users/testing/Library/Printers

##create symlinks for printers

ln -s /Library/Printers/Installed_Printers /Users/testing/Library/Printers

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In short it deletes the printers from the account (Ex. "Testing") in the restricted folder. It then creates symlinks to the printers in the root Library folder so the proxy message no longer appears.

What is the symlink that you are using? /Library/Printers/Installed_Printers does not exist on my machines. What is Installed_Printers a placeholder for? Thanks