An obvious way to simulate a Lévy process X is to sample its increments over time 1 / n, thus constructing an approximating random walk $$X^{(n)}$$ X(n) . This paper considers the error of such approximation after the two-sided reflection map is applied, with focus on the value of the resulting process Y and regulators L, U at the lower and upper barriers at some fixed time. Under the weak assumption that $$X_\varepsilon /a_\varepsilon $$ Xε/aε has a non-trivial weak limit for some scaling function $$a_\varepsilon $$ aε as $$\varepsilon \downarrow 0$$ ε↓0 , it is proved in particular that $$(Y_1-Y^{(n)}_n)/a_{1/n}$$ (Y1-Yn(n))/a1/n converges weakly to $$\pm \, V$$ ±V , where the sign depends on the last barrier visited. Here the limit V is the same as in the problem concerning approximation of the supremum as recently described by Ivanovs (Ann Appl Probab, 2018). Some further insight in the distribution of V is provided both theoretically and numerically.