winapi - How are printer notifications in Windows supposed to work with network printers? -
i have application needs print files of different types using associated applications printing using shellexecute , "print" verb. application needs (hopefully) reliably know when 1 print job processed , can issue next one. accomplish using findnextprinterchangenotification , seems work fine using local printers, e.g. installed via usb, different behavior if network printers involved. one of clients used application network printer, meaning professional printer it's own print server embedded, installed on windows server 2008 r2 , shared installed printer using windows it's clients. in scenario findnextprinterchangenotification returned success, it's returned structures got flag printer_notify_info_discarded set well. reproduce behavior windows server 2008 r2 on own didn't export printer it's own embedded printer server, locally installed freepdf xp. additionally, same behavior if use samba, cups , cups-pdf on 1 of our ubuntu development servers: samba...