How to enumerate network printers

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Howdy,

I need to be able to enumerate all the visible hosts on a windows network and list all their printers, in the same way that the windows add printer wizard does.

I have no problem listing printers that have already been installed on the local machine using both WMI and the GetPrinter/OpenPrinter APIs.

My question is how to enumerate all hosts with printers visible on the windows network but not installed on the computer running my software.

thanks

Jim Howard
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