New output device in SAP

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Recently we have added a new printer device in SAP. Currently we have approximately 60 printers present in SAP.

Now we want to restrict access to this new prnter and only few authorized people should be able to use this printer.

We do not want to restrict use of old printers. Existing printers are not present in any authorization group.

Also current value for S_SPO_DEV is * . Is there any easy way to restrict a single device?

Thanks,

Ambarish

[Former Member]

Hi Ambarish,

Give the printer name to the users in SU01 in the output device field of

"Defaults" tab. They can print only to that printers. Select Output immediately & Delete after output check boxes.

Thanks,

Sujoy

Edited by: sujoy007 on Apr 7, 2011 8:27 AM

[Former Member]

Dear Sujoy,

Thanks for your reply. Assigning a device in user profile defaults will not server the purpose as even though default device is X, users can use device Y to print if have sufficient authorization.

Thanks,

Ambarish

[mvoros]

That is NOT true. I also don't understand how those two options could be related to authorization.

Anyway, S_SPO_DEV * gives every user authorization to print on every printer. So you need to remove this authorization from your roles and assign proper authorization to roles. Hopefully you have a resonable naming covnention for printers, You can also use groups. For example you can put all printers in group NORMAL and special pritners into separate groups. Then adding S_SPO_DEV for those group would be sufficient.

Cheers

Edited by: Martin Voros on Apr 7, 2011 4:43 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Remove * value from field SPODEVICE and add new specific values as per you requirment ( table TSP03 -Spool: Printer declaration) in autho obj S_SPO_DEV then assigned roles to the users.