Print Quotas Under NT? 22
AmiOtaku asks: "I am a
student lab coordinator for Southwest Texas State University and I
was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm looking for a way to
limiting printing in several of my labs. Print
Quota Manager and Print
Manager Plus do not suit our needs. Both fail to obtain a list
of users from our NT domain. Our server is not the primary domain
controller for the campus, just the domain controller for our domain
which has a trust relationship with the main domain for campus, but
is not trusted, which is why both seem to fail in getting a list of
user names. Anyway, if I could find a way to simply limit each print
job to under X amount of pages, that would be a great help. Keeping a
log of users and enforcing quotas would be nice but is really optional.
Any ideas?" Before anyone starts delving into OS advocacy, I think
it poignant to note that we did this same
question for Linux, just
last week.
Re:I'm not an NT admin... (Score:1)
Your solutions sounds so simple. Unfortunately it's never easy on Windows. If it was Unix then no problem.
1) Intercept a print request. 2) Check against a local Database for the username. 3)A few years ago when I first started PaperCut [papercut.biz], I thought Windows was the "bees knees"... then I learnt Linux. It's model may be "old", but it's also the future!
ChrisRe:Speaking of Feature bloat (Score:2, Informative)
Look into Pharos (Score:1)
It's what we use at my university. It isn't the greatest package in the world, but our CIO swears by it and it hasn't given us too many problems yet.
Re:Look into Pharos (Score:1)
while you are at it, check the posting on this subject from last week. some guy mentioned a pretty neat package that intergrated with NT and he was working to open up a UNIX version or something.
You are using the wrong solution. (Score:2)
Macs are faster for floating point operations, and you need good floating point performance for vector printing.
There is an article about it here. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50078
If you don't like OS X, try running PPC linux or hurd.
Re:You are using the wrong solution. (Score:1)
Fix the trust (Score:1)
Fixing the system is easier than hacking around it (even if it isn't as much fun).
Texas A&M has a System (Score:2)
I'm sure there are others out there, but I'm also pretty sure their system is an in-house solution. Maybe since you are a university and one in Texas at that they will help ya out
Good luck.
JOhn
Another Option (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm not sure if it will meet your needs, since we have full access to our DCs, but you may want to take a look.
-BA
Re:Another Option (Score:1)
Pcounter works very well (Score:2, Informative)
I started with ver 2 about 7 years ago, and we sent every printjob that counted wrong back to Andy, and he gradually iorned out all the holes that students tried to exploit to get free counting, until, its now almost builtproof.
go look at www.pcounter.com
Dave...
I'll do my best to help you out. (Score:4, Informative)
I Don't know. (Score:1)