Need a fast test to see if a remote printer is available or not. Using CreateIC now, and when print
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My application does a CreateIC (and later, an OpenPrinter) for the user's default printer. When this is a remote printer, and that printer is powered down or otherwise not present on the network, it takes over 20 seconds for the CreateIC to return.
I'm looking for some call I can make that will give me a quick answer if the server is down (so I can return a status and not try to do the CreateIC/OpenPrinter).
My environment is c/c++ (non-managed).
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