Question : "A policy is in effect on your computer which prevents you from connecting to this printer queue"

Dear Experts,

I am seeing a strange issue on my domain which I do not understand.
We have two printer servers (old & new), both servers are Windows 2003.
When we try, as a non-admin, to install a printer, with non-standard drivers, from the new print server we get prompted with the message :

A policy is in effect on your computer which prevents you from connecting to this printer queue

Installing the printer from the old server does not give this message.
Installing as an Admin is fine as well. Once the printer is installed, we are not bothered again and can add the printer just fine from both servers. My guess is that if the driver is once installed it won't bother again to try unless the driver is updated.
As a test I created seperate containers in AD for both the computer and user object. The test computer and test user were added to these new containers and all group policy settings were disabled on these containers.Unfortunately, even without any applied policies, the problem still persist.

I have tried adding "point and print restrictions" to these test containers. Added trusted servers, tried to disable, enable, hit every checkmark I could fine on both the User settings as the Computer setting of the point and print restrictions but unfortunately the problem still persist.

I am puzzeled by this and am seeking some fresh insights.
Any help would be grately appreciated!

Thanks

Remko

Answer : "A policy is in effect on your computer which prevents you from connecting to this printer queue"

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