Subject: Re: print accounting
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 12:17:45 EST
We use a program called MacAdministrator (I'll be damned if I know the
URL for it, though... Romeyn, can you forward it too the list sometime?
Thanks) to authenticate all of our Macs at startup. This has the added
benefit of passing along the username to the print server when the job
is sent. It's proprietary, but very decent.
Richard Goldberg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have just centeralized our print services to one sun machine,
> handeling unix mac and PC printing with LPRng, samba, and atalk.
>
> We would like to be able to do some form of print accouting on our
> colout laser. LPRng has this feature, so accounting unix is simple.
> Samba requires a log on to print, so we can account windows. But all mac
> printing gets piped to lprng as user root (or whatever we set the "op"
> flag to in the papd.conf file).
>
> If we are going to do accounting we need something better than this. We
> don't even need a username, the name of the mac that sent the print job
> would be fine.
>
> Is there anyway to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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