Getting a users default printer

[Glenn]

Hi

We have a ASP.net app which calls into a web service which allow users to
print stuff. At the moment they have to specify the printer. Apparently
this is too much for our users, so I was wondering if there's a way of
getting the default printer from their user profile?

TIA

Glenn

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Are you saying that you want a remote application to make a call to the
client's default printer and print something on it? That would be a Security
nightmare.

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[Glenn]

Kevin

Your right of course, but in this case the application server and clients
all reside within a single domain and are authenticated by the application.

Thanks

Glenn

 

[Glenn]

I meant "You're"

Kevin

Your right of course, but in this case the application server and clients
all reside within a single domain and are authenticated by the
application.

Thanks

Glenn

 

[Mark Rae]

When you talk of a 'single domain', I'm assuming you mean a corporate
intranet...?

If so, you *might* be able to write an ActiveX control which would need to
run on each client machine - however, you'd have to seriously ramp down your
security just to even get it to download and install, never mind run...

 

[Glenn]

Mark

Yep, it's an intranet app and the ActiveX idea is a no go because of group
policy.

I had a feeling it wasn't meant to be.

Thanks anyway.

Glenn