Thanks, but that really won't help. We need to be able to link each printing job to a specific billing code, and user. Each user needs to be able to work on multiple billing codes.
simo wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 10:42 -0400, David Sonenberg wrote: >> My company would like to start capturing printing costs. Is there a way >> to configure the printing interface to prompt users for a billing code? > > The best thing is to assign a username/password that identify a user and > then use a system like pykota[1]+cups to bill per user. > > Prompting a user requires some binary running on the client plus some > way to communicate to this binary from the server when it receives a > print request (another method is an authorization system through a web > interface that you must go through before any print). This makes up a > complex system to maintain and cumbersome to use. > > Simo. > > > [1]: http://www.pykota.com/ > > -- David Sonenberg, CCNA, GCIH Manager, Information Technology Stroz Friedberg, LLC 15 Maiden Lane 15th Floor New York, NY 10038 Tel 212.981.6527 Fax 212.981.6545 This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No right to confidential or privileged treatment of this message is waived or lost by any error in transmission. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail or by telephone at 212.981.6540, delete the message and all copies from your system and destroy any hard copies. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
