>I setup a central Fedora 11 printer server in a big office for 80+ windows >clients due to the max 10 connections limitation of windows 2000/xp. 2 >physical printers are connected to the server, and I configured 3 CUPS >printers(1 printer with 2 different printer drivers) in Fedora 11.
>Is there a console tool to >1. Monitor the print queue(s) in real-time like windows system? A history >windows hold some recent printed jobs information, and a real-time window >hold the current printing/queueing jobs information. The current >printing/queueing job information contains the information like windows >system provided such as: Document Name, Status, Owner, Pages, File Size, >Submit Time, Port. >2. Control the print queue(s). Everyone who stand in front of Fedora 11 can >cancel any print job. >3. Log the job informations. Log job information to database, especially the >'Pages' and 'Owner' info of a job, so that I get a total Pages/Papers >consumed in a month. CUPS can't provide a correct Pages value if job comes >from Samba. >4. Notify the Owner when the job is finished via windows messenger >mechanism. Many workmates(especially workmates from HR department) often >print documents which have hundreds of pages. Their office is 30+ meters far >from the printer, they rarely watch the print queue in their windows >workstation, and watching a 'hundreds of pages' print job is boring. So, if >owner can be notified when print job is finished, it will be very >convenient. (hmmm, it's a weird idea that job information been notified via >windows messenger mechanism, but windows messenger service comes with >windows 2000+ system, so client users don't need install other softwares to >receive notification.) >ps: >(1). the printer server is an old computer (Celeron 900MHz, 128M+32M >memory), so it's not good to run GUI desktop. >(2). Document name contains Chinese characters, all I know is: there's an >open source project named zhCon to deal the display/input of >Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters in text console mode. And the encoding of >zhCon may be different to the linux system (I mean, the linux system may >have LANG=en_US.UTF-8, but zhCon may working with zh_CN.GBK), so the >encoding can be configurable. >:working: >If there's no such a tool, can anybody guide me how to get these print queue >information from Samba? >Any hint will be appreciated! :) Can't you use the webbased frontend of CUPS Like http://your-printserver:631/admin You need to edit the cups config file to allow other machine's other then localhost to acces the web gui. Here you find some info http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#5_3 regards, Johan No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.49/2293 - Release Date: 08/09/09 18:10:00 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
