Windows 7 - View Remote Printers

We have a Windows 2003 domain and a mix of Windows XP and Windows 7 PCs.  I am using a Windows 7 PC.  I can view a remote machines simply by typing
\\computername just fine.  With XP machines I can view they're locally installed printers and make changes to them.  On Windows 7 clients, I cannot.  I get "you do not have sufficient rights to perform
this operation".  I cannot view the printers on any machine nor can I add a printer to any machines.  Once again...everything works fine on Windows XP clients.  How can I correct this?

Sorry...these do not help.  This has nothing to do with the printers themselves.  I am not 'sharing' the printers.  All of our computers onsite have 'locally' installed printers that are on our network connected via TCP/IP directly. 
As the systems administrator I need to be able to access these on each individual PC to update drivers/change drivers/add printer.  I can do this just fine with Windows XP machines by default.  Something with the Windows 7 OS is blocking my ability
though.  I need to find out what this is.  I have already enabled file/print sharing, but this did not help.
For example on a Windows XP machine from my Windows 7 machine I can simply type
\\computername\ and then click on 'view remote printers' and the printer list shows for that PC.  At this point I can 'add a printer' or change drivers without the user even being aware of what I'm doing since I'm not
using remote desktop.  This is not the case with the Windows 7.  I can browse to the
\\computername without error.  But when I click on 'view remote printers' it shows 0 items.  When I click on 'add a printer' it says 'you do not have sufficient rights to perform this operation'.  This is as
clear as I can be.
I need to know why this isn't allowed by default like it is in Windows XP and what I can do to change it.  I do not have any group policies turned on that control securities except for one that TURNS OFF UAC.  These are the relevant policies
and their settings:
User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode [Elevate without prompting]
User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation [Disabled]
User Account Control: Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure locations [Disabled]
User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode [Disabled]
Could any of these be interfering with the printer control?  The reason for these settings is to allow our drive mappings to work on our Windows 2003 domain with Windows 7 clients.

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