Subject: Re: Does Netatalk allow printer accounting ...
From: Edan Idzerda (edan@mtu.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 23 1997 - 11:44:06 EDT
Mario Klebsch DG1AM allegedly said...
> >
> > - to be able to do per-user printer accounting,
>
> Since the netatalk afp server runs as a UNIX process under the
> identity of the user, it should work (without any configuration) if
Well, since apfd doesn't do printing, that's not necessarily true, is
it? I haven't seen anything in the papd documentation describing
how you can get the username from the connecting Mac. Of course,
the whole 'pr=|lpr' wasn't in the docs, either.
I'm certain that netatalk can be used as *part* of a system that
does printer accounting, but I don't believe it can be done with
the packages that they've released to the public :)
> > - 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 don't know, hos this can be done. The users always can copy the
> files on their local disk and after cpying them, they are not busy
> anymore, on the server.
I don't know exactly how it works, either, but I know it can be done.
I can't remember if CAP denied people from copying the application
or if we used different software for that function. (MacPrefect comes
to mind.) So if you keep people from copying the application,
then it can be done, eh?
I'd be interested in how other sites are doing print accounting
using netatalk, with or without Kerberos. The MacOS's lack of
a "logged in user" really bites in a multiuser environment.
(I know there are probably ways to do it but it doesn't SHIP with
it.)
- edan
-- Edan Idzerda <edan@mtu.edu> System Administrator -- Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI
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