Hello Runesmith,
Sorry for the delay in replying. I am glad you have managed to get the settings correct.
As you noted, this is indeed an access rights issue. The printing infrastructure uses by default the local system account. Usually a local system account has validity only on the PC where it resides. To all other PCs on the network, that is a nobody. So when it tries to put a file on a network share, it fails, even though the current user logged in to the PC has access rights to the share, since the printing service does not impersonate the currently logged-in user.
The reason why the service does not impersonate the currently logged-in user, is because the printing service needs to run in the background even if there is no user logged on to the machine.
One way of resolving this is to grant the local system account access rights to the share. If you do this, you should implement anti-virus protection on both the printing PC and the host of the share. Many viruses use local system account to copy themselves to such "open" shares.
The other, more secure way would be to print to a local folder, share that folder, and give access rights to that folder for a "collector service" running on your server. The collector should monitor the shared folder(s) assigned to it, pick up new files and copy them over. This is the kind of simple network service that IT guys can code with their eyes closed. If you require assistance with that, I can provide code snippets you can use (Note: any additional code snippets / applications I may provide as assistance on this forum are for "as is" use with no legal responsibility offered or implied. Such applications or code snippets are not Philips developed software, but rather software developed personally for non-commercial use).
Please let me know if I can be of further help.
Last edited by Chandana S; 10/12/09 11:23 AM. Reason: changed the 4th sentence
