On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:09 -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > I'm trying to put together a system to control pointless print jobs at > my school. I o to a small boarding school with a Windows-based > computer lab of about 20 machines at any given time. Occasionally, > some lunkhead will decide that it's a good idea to print a page about > the dangers of huffing turpentine 99 times. What's so bad about printing a single page about the dangers of taking 99 huffs of turpentine? Oh, you mean 99 pages about huffing turpentine? ;) > This goes to be a big pain > after a while (not to mention a lot of toner and paper). > > Right now, I'm putting together a plan to revamp the entire school's > network with Linux (more than likely Debian) machines to control > traffic and enforce network policy. I'm looking for a way of making > people responsible for their print jobs from Windows machines as well > as wireless users on their own laptops. We really just need a way to > find who issued a print job when big wastes come out of the network > printer. I am thinking of some kind of Samba solution, but I'm at a > loss of what to do. So, I'm asking list if they have any ideas. > Anything is appreciated. CUPS probably has some accounting functionality. Googling for 'CUPS accounting' brought up some interesting pages. Does this help? http://www.wlug.org.nz/CupsAccounting -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy." Ralph Ellison
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