True, but students change classrooms throughout the day, so their access to printers should vary by location rather than group membership.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Joseph Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: > You could limit who has rights to add/print to specific printers. > > >>> Jonathan Link <[email protected]> 5/3/2010 11:51 AM >>> > When I worked in a high school, an advantage to not using a print server > at > the time (NT 4 and Win 2000) was the fact that I could localize printing to > the room the computer is in very easily, by limiting which printers were > installed on the computer. To my knowledge, there isn't anyway to do that > with a Windows print server and printer sharing. > > Oh, and it became quite important to localize printing when I had some > students printing to other rooms when they weren't in that room. > > -Jonathan > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:48, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > I hate to toss such a generic question out there but I have zero > > experience in this > > > area. We are putting up a new building this summer, replacing our > larges > > which > > > would be the High School. We have always just used network attached > > printers and > > > let the users run free. Less hassle for us but probably not the most > cost > > effective way > > > to do it. So I am thinking 2008 R2 print server and some sort of usage > > monitoring software. > > > > > > Any ideas on suggested software to monitor all of this, or any ideas on > a > > better design? > > > > Not trying to be facetious or rude - just trying to stimulate some > thought. > > > > This is a high school; can we make the assumption that everyone has a > > computer, and most likely a portable? > > > > Why print? Why not keep everything electronic? > > > > It *would* be a radical move, and probably not easily accepted by some > > of the older staff, but I think in this specific environment, unless > > there are regulatory requirements for it, this might be a useful > > approach. > > > > Kurt > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
