Printing from ASP.NET to a network printer

Question

I need to send documents to a network printer (\\myserver\\myprinter). I\'m using the System.Printing classes to print, and it works fine when it\'s from a Windows Service,

Answer 1

By default, an ASP.NET application runs on a special account with limited rights. Just enough to serve webpages, nothing more. So you'll have to configure the ASPNET user.

By contrast Windows services usually run under local System account (with high privileges)