Thanks for the replies so far you've helped me a great deal. What can I change to get past this issue, any ideas perhaps? My users have rights on the printer itself. I've got the admin rights for the application set in the manifest file. I also run visual studio in administrator mode Win32 error: Access is denied.Īs you can see above I've setup the print server with admin privs. Message=An exception occurred while the queue was purged. Here is the code I use to check the queue and then if there are jobs to purge I try and purge it:ĭim localPrintServer As New (PrintSystemDesiredAccess.AdministrateServer)ĭim printerQueue As PrintQueue = localPrintServer.GetPrintQueue('Boca FGL 26/46 200 DPI')

I can now access the print queue, thanks.Īlthough the accessing of the queue part is now sorted I still can't purge it. I have tried the above link you posted about the local print server. I'm either not understanding the cancel process or it's just not possible to cancel the jobs.ĭoes anybody maybe have any suggestions to my problem? I have been looking for code and tried using SetJob (winspool.drv) but I don't have the JobID's associated with the jobs in the queue so I can't set them to cancel. What I would like to do is when the application starts up, clear all jobs found in the print queue for the local attached printer. When you then restart the application the same steps will be followed and it will add a new job to the queue which in turn will then return an error when trying to execute StartDocPrinter (this function times out) and the application will then not start-up. If you restart the application before this is done, or end task it, the print job will stay in the queue and not be removed. Sometimes when the application starts up with no tickets loaded in the printer a test print file will be in the printer queue but will usually be removed after the code has returned out of ticket status from the printer buffer. I communicate with the printer using winspool.drv functionality.

To do that, follow these steps: Step 1 Click Start menu and select Settings.

I'm currently developing a kiosk system making use of a BOCA printer on USB port for ticket printing purposes. If the access denied issue is caused by a corrupt account, you can resolve it by creating a new local user profile / account.

Printer queue access denied