>My reply:
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>Will user level sharing work even on a stand alone PC? The PCs all run on XP.

No, my explanation was for a network.

Perhaps you can do something with user policies, but I don't know the details.

>This is the situation. My client has been distributing some sort of proprietary software which can dump print jobs on a special printer (also proprietary) that can print/engrave on metal (as against the usual paper) items like pendants. He wants to deter users using their own metal material.
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>Now, he wants some sort of monitoring or better yet a way to find out how many print jobs were made on a particular day.
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>I have gone thru WINSPOOL.DRV documentation and found out that there are functions like OpenPrinter, ClosePrinter. There is this EnumJobs which I think is the answer but I cant seem to make it work. (No idea what DWORD, STRUCT et al is though)
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>However, isnt it logical that there must be some log where one can print out or save to disk where XP?
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>Thanks! Hoping for your early help. =)
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>Dennis

I don't know. I hope somebody else can help you.