> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 3 06:42:16 2003 > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:03:57 -0500 (EST) > From: William C Beegle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LPRng: Competitors > > A little off-topic, but... > > I was able to install LPRng here recently because we needed something new > ASAP. Now, we're undertaking a proper look at alternatives. We may stay > with LPRng, but I need to justify that to management. The open source > stuff is relatively easy to find and examine. I'm looking for commercial > options. > > This is a university environment, so we really need a quota system (and > all the baggage that comes along with that, like authentication and > billing for additional pages). Some ability to export data (for billing, > reports, etc.) is also pretty important. It MUST work on Windows and > MacOS X, and it'd sure be nice if it worked on Linux and/or Solaris. > > Pharos seems to be the 800-pound gorilla in this market. The few other > commercial solutions that I've seen seem to be Windows-only. What else is > out there? > > I'll gladly summarize and post if people reply directly to me. > > -willie > > -- > "Computer science is no more about computers than > astronomy is about telescopes." - E.W. Dijkstra
You can get commercial support for LPRng from Astart Technologies. 1. You can do quotas. 2. You can do accounting. 3. You can use the Samba interface and support SMB printing. The problem with a 'general package' for doing this is that each institution seems to have its own 'backend'. I have solved this by using a set of Perl scripts to access the backend databases, etc. This is included with the LPRng Commercial Package. Patrick Powell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
