Network Printers

I wouldn't expect that you'd need any special privileges for the code to work though I can't say for sure as I'm using a non-networked machine and so can't test it.

Do you get any printers returned if you use PRINTER_ENUM_REMOTE with the Name argument set to "Print Provider!Domain" ?

If you can use Active Directory and the sample code is working, I'd be inclined to go with that. 

Vuples,
Thanks for your response. I was also looking the same link.

If I pass the enum value as "PRINTER_ENUM_NETWORK" it is not returning any printer details but if I change the enum value to
PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL then it is returning all my local system printers.    
For enumerating the N/W printer do I need domain Administrator ? Please suggest me. 

I got an one more sample code to get all the n/w printers by using the Active Directory.


Imports System 
Imports System.DirectoryServices 
 
Public Class Foo  
 
    Public Shared Sub Main(args() As String) 
     
        Dim entry As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://DC=redmond, DC=corp, DC=microsoft, DC=com") 
        Dim searcher As New DirectorySearcher(entry) 
        searcher.Filter = "(objectCategory=printQueue)" 
         
        Dim result As SearchResult 
        For Each result In searcher.FindAll() 
            Console.WriteLine(result.GetDirectoryEntry().Path) 
        Next 
         
    End Sub 
 
End Class


Source Link : http://forums.asp.net/t/443425.aspx/1

Sorry, I misunderstood the question.

To get all network printers in the current domain, I think you'll need to call the API function EnumPrinters (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162692(VS.85).aspx) and pass it the PRINTER_ENUM_NETWORK flag. The printer information (including the name) will then be returned in an array of PRINTER_INFO_1 structs.

Try the following:

I wanted across the network systems and not from the local machine.

You should be able to do something using WMI and the Win32_Printer class in particular (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394363(VS.85).aspx).

Here's some C# code to try: