[THIN] Re: Printing Question
- From: "Raffensberger, Stephen D" <sraffens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:58:16 -0400
Carl,
Thanks for the reply. Nope, they don't have those rights. The published
application can print any of several ways. It can launch IE which then
prints fine. It can launch Acrobat Reader which also prints okay.
However, when it has to assemble a mortgage document, it calls something
called a Rakis Document Control Production System. Rakis pulls together
all the pre-made forms, inserts the customer information into the
appropriate fields and then presents the user with a drop-down list of
printers to choose from. If you've recently logged on, you will only see
your printers. However, if you've been logged on for a few hours, you
can literally see 80 or more printers. Finding your printer is like
picking fly poop out of pepper.
Thanks to your hint, I'm going to suggest to Rakis that they look in
HKCU\Printers\DevModePerUser which appears to have only that user's
autocreated printers. However, I suspect this is non standard from a
Microsoft viewpoint and won't be native to VB.
Any thoughts?
I'd appreciate anyone else checking the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices
key of several users and letting me know if this phenomenon is wide
spread or if I've done something wrong.
Thanks,
Steve Raffensberger
Sovereign Bank
OAG Citrix Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carl Stalhood
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:21 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Printing Question
Client printers are created under
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers.
Network printers are created under HKCU\Printers
Do users have "Power User" or "Administrator" rights?
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Of Raffensberger, Stephen D
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:44 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Printing Question
Where in the registry should an application look for a user's printers?
From all my research, it should be
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices.
However, strange things happen in there. When user A logs on, it
populates that key with the correct printers. When user B subsequently
logs on, it populates that key with the correct printers. However, it
also appends user A's key with user B's printers. User C appends
printers to both user A and B's keys. This happens on both W2K/MFXP and
W2K3/PS4.
Normal applications seem to deal with this but I have one app that takes
it literally. The vendor says they are using MS VB standard functions to
determine the printer list. They need help figuring out why their app
behaves differently than anything else.
Is there a better place to enumerate a user's printers? Why does this
key in HKCU accumulate every other subsequent user's printers?
Steve Raffensberger
Sovereign Bank
OAG Citrix Administrator
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