Re: [Samba] Samba Printer Accounting

2004-09-16 Thread Bruno Gimenes Pereti
Hi Ryan,
You can try PyKota.
http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation
Bruno.
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From: Ryan Verner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 12:20 AM
Subject: [Samba] Samba Printer Accounting


Howdy,
I'm looking for a piece of software I can use for accounting printers 
shared
on a Linux box via Samba, to Win98/2K/XP machines on a domain.  In other
words, I want to be able to give user a print quota (say, $3.00), then 
charge
them 10c per page they print from a Windows client to a printer shared 
from a
Linux box running Samba.  If they're out of quota, it doesn't print (and
doesn't tie up the print queue for everybody else).

I can't find any workable solutions.  I tried PrintBill, but it's rather
buggy, it tends to jam up queues randomly,  and requires a Postscript 
driver
and as a result there's all sorts of ways to bypass it.

I'm more than happy with a commercial solution.  I just want something 
that
works :-)

Thanks,
Ryan
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Re: [Samba] Samba Printer Accounting

2004-09-16 Thread Filipi Vianna
Ryan Verner wrote:
Howdy,
I'm looking for a piece of software I can use for accounting printers shared 
on a Linux box via Samba, to Win98/2K/XP machines on a domain.  In other 
words, I want to be able to give user a print quota (say, $3.00), then charge 
them 10c per page they print from a Windows client to a printer shared from a 
Linux box running Samba.  If they're out of quota, it doesn't print (and 
doesn't tie up the print queue for everybody else).

I can't find any workable solutions.  I tried PrintBill, but it's rather 
buggy, it tends to jam up queues randomly,  and requires a Postscript driver 
and as a result there's all sorts of ways to bypass it.

I'm more than happy with a commercial solution.  I just want something that 
works :-)

Thanks,
Ryan
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This software does just what you want.
http://www.ib.unicamp.br/ibquota/
Unfortunately all the docs are in portuguese (the fish can help
to handle this - http://babelfish.altavista.com)
But the software is realy god. You can manage quotas from an
web frontend. It requires apache, php, mysql and of course
samba and cups.
I hope it helps.
Regards,
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Faculdade de Engenharia - PUC-RS
telefone: (51) 3320-3500 ramal: 4053
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[Samba] Samba Printer Accounting

2004-09-15 Thread Ryan Verner
Howdy,

I'm looking for a piece of software I can use for accounting printers shared 
on a Linux box via Samba, to Win98/2K/XP machines on a domain.  In other 
words, I want to be able to give user a print quota (say, $3.00), then charge 
them 10c per page they print from a Windows client to a printer shared from a 
Linux box running Samba.  If they're out of quota, it doesn't print (and 
doesn't tie up the print queue for everybody else).

I can't find any workable solutions.  I tried PrintBill, but it's rather 
buggy, it tends to jam up queues randomly,  and requires a Postscript driver 
and as a result there's all sorts of ways to bypass it.

I'm more than happy with a commercial solution.  I just want something that 
works :-)

Thanks,

Ryan

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