That's pretty cool info on the print approval queue. Think you could put that up on a wiki page? Maybe under https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuRecipes/ ?
-Jordan On 9/6/07, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, Serdar Dolphin wrote: > > > I work at elementary school and we proudly use edubuntu in labs. my > > question is HOW to restrict users to printouts? > > > > lets say each user will have 100 pages quota for a month or period of > > time. since they are in limit they cant print more... > > The first thing you need to do is pick your model, some people > > - use absolute monthly quotas > - allow students to print to a queue but require a teacher to allow each > print job -- cups can do this out of the box. > - some other variant. > > I have to admit I've never used quotas, though I have had print jobs queued > for approval. > > Queueing print jobs for approval can be done by adding this line: > > Option job-hold-until indefinite > > to the stanza for a given printer in /etc/cups/printers.conf. You then > restart cups (system->administration->services) and jobs should start > queuing. To approve jobs, someone in the cupsys group must login to the > cups webpage on the server > > http://localhost:631 > > and look under "jobs". > > This page seems to describe a simple way to do quotas: > > http://linux.unimelb.edu.au/server/course/fc3/cups.html > > although if you need more, the PyKota quota add-on for CUPS provides more > powerful quota systems for CUPS. > > http://www.pykota.com/ > > http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Printing/PyKota-Print-Quota-System-5421.shtml > > The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) documentation is here: > > http://www.cups.org/documentation.php > > To get the most out of CUPS you may need to be willing to carefully edit > config files in /etc/cups/ as some of the graphical configuration tools > don't support all of the features. > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- "That's all very well in practice, but will it ever work in theory?" -- G. Hill "A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist." -- Jöns Jacob Berzelius -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
