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Asked: 2026-05-11T15:27:56+00:00

I have an application that I’m working on and I allow the user to

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I have an application that I’m working on and I allow the user to select a printer to use as their printer while printing forms from the application. I’m using .NET 2.0

In the settings screen, I call 

System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters

to get the list of available printers.

On a client’s machine, the property throws an exception: 

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The RPC server is unavailable

The client is reporting that windows shows his printer as ‘ready’, and the client can print test pages from the printer. But, I have not been able to reproduce this issue locally and I’m running out of ideas. Does anyone have any ideas what could cause this issue? Any ideas or directions to look would be helpful. Thanks

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  1. If you can print, most likely a security issue. Otherwise I would have voted ‘dead spooler service’ but more likely your app doesn’t have the rights to communicate with the spooler service…

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