anselm thanks for yr email . i have all ldap users u can do a favour to give me that script
>From: Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Noman yousuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CUPS restrictions by location of terminals? >Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:00:33 +0200 > >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
