Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture
(Re-posting because I was too stupid to change $subject as needed) On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 29 Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:29:23 -0500 From: Don Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture To: Samba User's List [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] The catch is that it was written around LPRng. A couple times now, I have attempted to modify (update) the system to use CUPS -- but I've always been stymied by the lack of any functions to move jobs from one queue to another. Uuhmmm what makes you think that you can't move jobs from one queue to another when using CUPS? What are your exact requirements when moving jobs? Cheers, Kurt -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Print Cost Capture
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? -- 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
Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture
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/ -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture
Well, if you're truly a glutton for punishment, you could have billing-code-specific print queues. David Sonenberg wrote: 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/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:42:16AM -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? You could use PyKota + PyKotIcon available from http://www.pykota.com to do this. Both are available under the terms of the GNU General Public License of the Free Software Foundation. PyKota runs on the print server side. It manages print accounting and printing quotas. PyKotIcon is a client side helper with which you can ask for any information to the end user, for example a billing code, whenever a print job passes through PyKota. This billing code can then be used by PyKota to overwrite the one optionally present in the job ticket (if you printed for example with 'lp -o job-billing=YourCode') bye Jerome Alet -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:03:34PM +0200, Jerome Alet wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:42:16AM -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? You could use PyKota + PyKotIcon available from http://www.pykota.com to do this. Sorry, I forgot the following disclaimer : Since I wrote both of these software, my advice about them is probably far from being impartial. hth anyway Jerome Alet -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Don Meyer wrote: The catch is that it was written around LPRng. A couple times now, I have attempted to modify (update) the system to use CUPS -- but I've always been stymied by the lack of any functions to move jobs from one queue to another. Maybe this could be the solution : http://iremia.univ-reunion.fr/intranet/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JKota Disclaimer : I'm NOT related in any way to this project. bye Jerome Alet -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture
Hi You can also try a software called PAPERCUT , which i am using it sits perfectly with SAMBA with OPENLDAP and the billing is also quite nice. It's available in both Linux and windows version Please check it , hope it suites you. Regards Niranjan On 7/5/06, Jerome Alet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Don Meyer wrote: The catch is that it was written around LPRng. A couple times now, I have attempted to modify (update) the system to use CUPS -- but I've always been stymied by the lack of any functions to move jobs from one queue to another. Maybe this could be the solution : http://iremia.univ-reunion.fr/intranet/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JKota Disclaimer : I'm NOT related in any way to this project. bye Jerome Alet -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
