Subject: Re: print accounting
From: Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. (bucky@interaccess.com)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 13:00:09 EST
MacAdministrator 2.0:
http://www.hi-resolution.com/MacAdministrator2/MA2Home.html
To look up any Mac software: http://www.versiontracker.com/
To look up any Linux software: http://freshmeat.net/
-B...
> From: Matthew Keller <kellermg@potsdam.edu>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:17:45 -0500
> To: Richard Goldberg <rickg@yorku.ca>
> Cc: netatalk-admins@umich.edu, Romeyn Prescott <prescor@potsdam.edu>
> Subject: Re: print accounting
> Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:23:40 -0500 (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.
>>
>> ***************************** **************************************
>> *Rick Goldberg * * *
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>> *rickg@yorku.ca * * -Stan Cottrell- *
>> *www.cs.yorku.ca/~rickg * * *
>> ***************************** **************************************
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>> But winning isn't very exciting."
>
>
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>
> Matthew Keller
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> Host Systems Analyst
> Computing & Technology Services
> Information Services Division
> State University of New York at Potsdam
>
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