Security News > 2021 > September > How to fix printers asking for admins creds after PrintNightmare patch
Some printers will request administrator credentials every time users try to print in Windows Point and Print environments due to a known issue caused by KB5005033 or later security updates addressing the PrintNightmare vulnerability.
This happens because, after installing these PrintNightmare patches, only administrators are allowed to install or update drivers via Point and Print.
The request for admin credentials is triggered automatically in environments where the print server has a newer driver than the client attempting to print.
"Certain printers in some environments using Point and Print might receive a prompt saying, 'Do you trust this printer' and requiring administrator credentials to install every time an app attempts to print to a print server or a print client connects to a print server," Microsoft explains.
If updating printer drivers across your environment does not fix these printing problems, you should reach out to your printer manufacturer support team.
Windows administrators have been experiencing wide-scale network printing problems after installing the fix for the last remaining PrintNightmare vulnerability.