[python-win32] printer not found

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Thu Sep 23 00:31:06 CEST 2004


> I am running a basic printing program using reportlab on win2000
> professional.
> When run through pythonwin, the program prints properly.
> When run through the Apache server, I get a Runtime Error:
> RuntimeError: The printer was not found.
> args = ('The printer was not found.',)

Apache is probably running as a service using the "local system" account.
This account by default has no network access.  You could change the account
used by apache, but then you may be opening a security hole.

Mark



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