printing from a webservice

[Jon Vaughan]

Hi,

Background to the story :

Calling a webservice from an IPAQ to a server , wevservice prints to
networked printers
Server 2003
IIS 6.0
Framework 1.1
Pocket PC with framework installed.

What is working :

Printing from the server to network printers works fine in test prints.
calling webservices on the serv works fine.

What I ahve done so far :

Running locally on the dev machine this works fine , the call goes to the
webservice and the printer prints ( I guess this is because its all under
the same account !?! )

However moving it over to the server causes errors - saying that the network
resource deosnt exist. From waht I have read Im presuming this is because a
webservice is running under ASPNET. I have read a solution to this is the
following :

Rename the process username in machine.config to SYSTEM
Copy the printer settings from the registry from local user to
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT
Restart IIS

Which I have done and still havent gotten any furthur.

Now I have read that Framework 1.1 actually runs under IWAM_Machine name. As
I have limited knowledge of User Accounts im at a loss to know what to do
next. Do the changes above have the same impact on IWAM_Machine as they
would on ASPNET ? Or have I overlooked something quite fundemental ?

Thanks

Jon

[Georgi Vajarov]

I would try to run the process under a domain admin account just so you can
prove or disprove that this is really a permissions issue.
--
G.


"Jon Vaughan" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Background to the story :
>
> Calling a webservice from an IPAQ to a server , wevservice prints to
> networked printers
> Server 2003
> IIS 6.0
> Framework 1.1
> Pocket PC with framework installed.
>
> What is working :
>
> Printing from the server to network printers works fine in test prints.
> calling webservices on the serv works fine.
>
> What I ahve done so far :
>
> Running locally on the dev machine this works fine , the call goes to the
> webservice and the printer prints ( I guess this is because its all under
> the same account !?! )
>
> However moving it over to the server causes errors - saying that the network
> resource deosnt exist. From waht I have read Im presuming this is because a
> webservice is running under ASPNET. I have read a solution to this is the
> following :
>
> Rename the process username in machine.config to SYSTEM
> Copy the printer settings from the registry from local user to
> HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT
> Restart IIS
>
> Which I have done and still havent gotten any furthur.
>
> Now I have read that Framework 1.1 actually runs under IWAM_Machine name. As
> I have limited knowledge of User Accounts im at a loss to know what to do
> next. Do the changes above have the same impact on IWAM_Machine as they
> would on ASPNET ? Or have I overlooked something quite fundemental ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jon
>
>
>