Am Dienstag, den 05.09.2006, 04:54 +0000 schrieb Noman yousuf: > hai i also want to do this > i have 50 users and 5 depts . i want that every dept user can only print > from its dept printer not from other depts printer . no need to hide > printers i just named them as dept name any idea waht i do
I implemented some manual printing restriction script for CUPS, back in 2004. I think it centered around the CUPS internal file "/usr/bin/cupsdoprint", and IIRC that program is called with ANY printjob to be printed, and with command line parameters telling which printer is meant to be used, and the username also available. What I did (still - if I remember correctly - my memory is not much better than 1MB SIM chips nowadays ;-/) was to move that program to /usr/local/bin/cupsdoprint.real, and write a bash script to find out which parameters you get with cupsdoprint. IIRC, "-P printername" and "-U username" were the interesting ones. Then, with a little bit of bash if'ing and so on, you can simply discard printjobs that ought not to be printed by exiting the script without further action, or pipe stdin through the cupsdoprint.real with the same command line to actually print the data. You could also have a "magic" printer that is default for all users. Let's say it has the name "next2u". Now when this printer is requested, you have a little script logic that looks up which display the user is logged in from, and then use a table or text config to find out which printer is nearest to that terminal. This way, all users can simply print to "next2u", but if there is real need to print to a remote printer, it is possible by selecting the appropriate machine: It might be reasonable to print to the printer in the next room while the one in front of you runs on a 400 page duplex full-colour por^H^H^H manual. You could even implement logic to allow the free choice of printers to a certain group of users only, and restrict the others to doing next2u-printing. HTH Anselm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
