Access to Printer through a Service 2

[JaneMosk]

We have just converted an application running on an NT server to a service. The application sends a report to a printer. When running as an application with a user logged in, the application found the printers defined for the user. Now that it is running as a service the application can not find a printer. Is there a way to define a printer the service can find without a user being logged on??

 

[MasterRacker]

Services generally run under the security context of the local machine and therefore cannot access anything across a netowrk.<br><br>As, a beginning yo need to get the service to run under a domain account: In Start&gt;Control Panel&gt;Services open the startup properties for the service.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of logging on as a system account log on under a domain account that can access the printer.<br><br>I don't know if this will give you access to the user profile (and the printer defined in it) or not, but it should get you going in the right direction. <p> Jeff<br><a href=mailto: masterracker@hotmail.com> masterracker@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most ...