winborne@physics.unc.edu (George Winborne) (11/14/90)
We have a FastPath4 bridging Macs and Suns on Localtalk and Ether respectively. We are using aufs and papif and trying to get lwsrv to work. How can we keep track of LaserWriter usage efficiently. Our printing is climbing rapidly and we want to see who prints so much and maybe consider billing for pages. I know Unix can track serially connected printers and papif can track the jobs it sends to our Appletalked Lasers. Is there any way to keep accounts on jobs sent by our Macs to Lasers just hanging off the Localtalk. Do we have to connect all the printers to a Unix box to get accounting? I don't know anything about Apple's Appleshare/Interpoll utilities. Do any of these things have print accounting? What about third party or archived utilities? I can summarize answers sent directly to me to the Net. Thanks! George Winborne Dept. of Physics & Astronomy University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255
rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull) (11/16/90)
In article <1624@beguine.UUCP> winborne@physics.unc.edu (George Winborne) writes: >We have a FastPath4 bridging Macs and Suns on Localtalk and Ether >respectively. We are using aufs and papif and trying to get lwsrv to work. > >How can we keep track of LaserWriter usage efficiently. Our printing is >George Winborne We use a locally written system that uses a daemon running on a Unix machine, a hacked lwsrv, and an init for the Macintosh. It forces everyone to give a Unix login name and password whenever they print. The drawback is that all files are spooled on the Unix machine (throught lwsrv) and some software doesn't like this (PageMaker 4.0, to be exact.) Robert -- Robert K. Shull rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu chinet!uokmax!rob