Hi,

We have a .net web application, and are trying to use
PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters to list the printers installed on the
webserver. (Windows 2003 server R2, IIS 6, .net framework 2.0.)
The printers installed on the web server under the account used by asp.net
for this web application are network printers that are shared by other
computers that are on our domain. Permission has been granted for everyone
to print to them.
The web server running asp.net is not part of the domain, and the account
used by asp.net is a non-domain account. (It's the identity of the
application pool WEBSERVER\webappaccount).
From asp.net we can use PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.PrinterName to set the
printer name and then PrintDocument.Print works fine to these network
printers, however, when you use PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters  it
returns an empty collection, with no exception raised.

What could be preventing PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters from being
populated, given that we can actually print from asp.net?

any help much appreciated

regards,
Tessa