Subject: Re: Does Netatalk allow printer accounting and licence managing ?
From: Wes Brown (wes@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 20 1997 - 08:00:36 EDT
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry to repeat this posting, but I've only had one reply.
> (That could be because I managed to wreck my sendmail later in the day
> (after the original post -- sorry about any bounces). )
>
> I'm getting rather desperate to know the answer to this, because I
> don't want to have to become an expert on netatalk and CAPS just to
> find the answer.
>
> Surely someone must know ...
Well, from looking at the UMich pages I concluded that they were running
something that does accounting on the printing.
(http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/umce-dev/#acct)
I am still trying to get the Kerberized printing to work here.
Information on Netatalk is out there, but I have only found a few
places.
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/
http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/
http://artoo.hitchcock.org/~flowerpt/projects/linux-netatalk/
http://garnet.berkeley.edu/~weugster/appleprint.html
> I've inherited a site that runs a little bit of netatalk and a little
> bit of CAPS and I'd like to "iron out" the system, by reinstalling one
> or the other.
>
> Two of my requirements are:
>
> - to be able to do per-user printer accounting,
> - to be able to do licence metering (on applications),
> (CAPS appears to be able to do this. That is, to have
> applications installed on the server, but limited in usage by netatalk
> according to how many licences I tell it we have for each application.)
>
>
> I've had a look in the FAQ, etc and I can't see the answers there.
>
> Could someone let me know if netatalk can do this, so that I know
> which way to go (I'd prefer to go with netatalk if possible -- it appears
> to be superior in many other ways).
Wes
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