Event ID 1116 Printer autocreation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0×78A

You get the error “Event ID 1116 Printer autocreation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0×78A” in the eventvwr of the citrix presentation server when a clients printer fails to autocreate

Symptoms of “Event ID 1116 Printer autocreation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0×78A”

You might get the error Event ID 1116 Printer autocreation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0×78A when a users printer fails to autocreate within an ICA connection.  This affects both administrators and also normal users.

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Symptoms For – Event ID 1116 Printer autocreation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0×3EB

You get the error “Event ID 1116 Printer autocreation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0×3EB” when a clients auto created printers are using specific native drivers or the citrix universal printer driver.

Event ID: 1116, AddPrinter() Error 0×3EB appears in the Application Event Log.

Converting 3EB from hex to decimal gives:

1003

Running the net helpmsg 1003 command from a command line gives the following output:

Cannot complete this

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Symptoms For – Error: Print settings could not be saved, access is denied

You get the error “Error: Print settings could not be saved, access is denied” when you go in to the printers properties and click on the advanced tab and make changes within here.  You also did not get this error when you were using citrix presentation server 3.0 and earlier

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When you get the error “Event ID 1116 AddPrinter failed with Status 0×6be” this error has something to do with the RCP / TCP connection on the server

Symptoms

You might get the error Event ID 1116 AddPrinter failed with Status 0×6be in the presentation servers eventvwr. This event will be logged to the eventvwr when a clients printer fails to autocreate. You may even get the error “Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0×6BE” in the eventvwr

Converting the hexadecimal 6BE to decimal and using net helpmsg provides the following information:

The remote procedure call (RPC) failed.

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Symptoms For Citrix Client Printers Do Not Autocreate

Client printers do not auto create when you connect to a citrix server running citrix presentation server or Xenapp server. You will also get lots of errors in the eventlog about client printers failing to Autocreate.

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