Printing Quotas with PaperCut? // Re: Pykota

[RalfGesellensetter <rgx@gmx.de>]

Dear list,

this thread is quite old, but still not closed. Hence I dare to quote 
the latest posting below.

Our new support service provider (put in place on the level of municipality)
suggests using papercut solutions for printing accounting:
	http://www.dungog.net/wiki/Papercut

Its pro is that is works for heterogeneous networks, and it runs on top of
a Linux server. Its con is that is no FOSS and it costs a bit (>5 users).

But maybe, cups+pykota has a worthy successor... ;)

Regards
Ralf


Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb Bjarne Nielsen:
> På Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:05:10 +0200, skrev Petter Reinholdtsen  
> <pere@hungry.com>:
> 
> > [Laget Sebastiaan]
> >> To limit printing i've been looking for a free print quota manager.
> >> I found Pykota, but am unable to find a manual of how to, to connect it
> >> to the LDAP structure.
> >
> > I do not have any useful experience with pykota, but notice it was
> > requested for debian in 2003, but never uploaded into the archive.
> > Check <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/198828> for that story.
> >
> > The home page on <URL:http://www.pykota.com/software/pykota/> make me
> > believe this is something we should look at for Debian Edu.
> 
> Very much so! Many schools are asking for this. There is quota options in  
> cups, but I fear cups don't speak that good with ldap either. Quotas in  
> kprinter/cups works fine on kubuntu and debian, but so far I haven't been  
> able to get it working in debian-edu < 3.0. For 3.0 I haven't tried yet.  
> I'll try to install 3.0 next week.
> 
> Bjarne Nielsen
> 
> 
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