Printing under a service in windows server 2008

[brianleep]

Hello, My question relates to printing and permissions when a program runs as a service. We have a program that runs as a service on windows servers that basically processes reports and then prints them to pdf using an Amyuni PDF printer driver which is just a virtual pdf printer on the server. And then reads the contents of the pdf and saves it to a database file. This process works perfect under a 2003 server but the same program running on server 2008 fails, we’ve narrowed it down to the printing is failing under ’08. If we run the program interactively (not as a service) the program run correctly and the print works. Do you know of any security or permission settings that would prevent the printer from working under 2008. We’ve tried running the service as the local system account and system administrator with no luck, we’ve also tried printing to other printers under the service with no luck. We've also tried starting the Interactive Services Detection service, but that didn't help either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian

 

[baddos]

Have you tried creating a user account for that service and setting it up to login using that user account?

 

[brianleep]

Yes, I just did try that and I get the same results. The user i added did have admin authority.