Try the CUPS printer drivers for windows.. (version 5 ??) they support page counting, coz it convert your printing page to a pdf format.. and then you can see the number of pages at one of the last lines..
easy to make a script who's filtering out the page numbers and prosses it to the account.. l8r --------------------------------------------- Collen Blijenberg (MLHJ) Thursday, March 4, 2004, 10:31:46 PM, you wrote: ML> Hi, I'm running Samba printing services to share a printer on ML> my Linux box with a network of windows machines. Everything works ML> great. The only problem I am having is that I cannot count the ML> number of pages printed by each user. ML> My printers section looks like this: ML> [printers] ML> comment = All Printers ML> browseable = no ML> guest ok = no ML> path = /var/spool/samba ML> printable = yes ML> public = no ML> create mask = 0700 ML> print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r -J "%m.%J" ML> lpq command = lpstat -o %p ML> lprm command = cancel %p-%j ML> If I had a script or escape sequence that would specify the ML> number of pages of the print document I would have no problem ML> writing a script to keep track of everything else. The easiest ML> solution I see to my problem is if samba has a nice escape ML> sequence, like %P or something, or if there was a little script I ML> could pass the spool document to and it'd tell me. Since I'm ML> printing raw, and the windows drivers are pcl, I doubt there's any ML> script that would work. ML> Any help is greatly appreciated. ML> Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
