FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification

[formerTexan]

I would like to verify that a report (MS Access in this case) has actually printed. This is in a setting with Windows XP on a Novell network.

So far I have been unable to raise a valid event handle from FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification although I have tried it both with and without a pointer to a PRINTER_NOTIFY_OPTIONS structure. The function is being passed a valid printer handle.

Public Declare Function apiFindFirstPrinterChangeNotificationLong Lib "winspool.drv" Alias "FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification" _
  (ByVal hPrinter As Long, ByVal fdwFlags As Long, ByVal fdwOptions As Long, ByVal lpPrinterNotifyOptions As Long) As Long

Public Sub WaitForPrinterEvent(ByVal hPrinter As Long)

'Call InitialiseNotifyOptions    '\\ initialize structures
'mEventHandle = apiFindFirstPrinterChangeNotificationLong(hPrinter, PRINTER_CHANGE_JOB, 0, varPtr(PrintOptions))   '\\ ptr to PRINTER_NOTIFY_OPTIONS structure

mEventHandle = apiFindFirstPrinterChangeNotificationLong(hPrinter, PRINTER_CHANGE_JOB, 0, 0)

If mEventHandle <> INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then
'do stuff here...
End If

End Sub

Is this an insurmountable network issue? Should I consider an alternative approach? Any suggestions on how to register a printer event will be welcome.

Thanks,
Bill