Thank you Johan for your reply! I've already configured the web admin of CUPS, I even assign an 80 port to it. What I do not want to use it is because of: 1. It can't show the correct document pages if windows clients print to samba shared printer. it will always be 1 page. 2. It's not real-time enough, we need manually refresh/reload the page like polling mode. 3. It's a web GUI which need a text browser to display it, and there are other important management options on it.
Before I migrate to linux print server, I use a Windows 2000 Professional to act as print server. Workmates know how to open the print/fax folder, view the print queue, and cancel a print job on the win2000 print server. So I want a similar simple management like that on a linux print server, unfortunately, web-admin of CUPS does not fit that very well :(. Johan Hendriks wrote: > >>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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-there-a-console-tool-to-monitor-control-log-notify-the-print-queue-information--tp24897086p24903796.html Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
