Subject: Re: Does Netatalk allow printer accounting ...
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Tue Jun 24 1997 - 16:10:06 EDT
> From: Edan Idzerda <edan@mtu.edu>
> To: stefan@promo.de (Stefan Bethke)
> Stefan Bethke allegedly said:
> > Print job accounting is not easy to achieve. Although the Printer Access
> > Protocol contains provisions for a "password", neither LaserWriter 7.x nor
> > 8.x make any use of, nor do they provide any user authentication data.
> No kidding, especially if you'd really like to hold people responsible
> for pages printed. And while we're vaguely on the subject, has anyone
> gotten any other printer driver besides LaserWriter 8 to print to a
> netatalk 1.4b2 papd running under Solaris 2.5?
I don't have old LaserWriter drivers sitting around to try. And I
don't think our printing solution is currently working on the latest
LaserWriter driver. That said, we have an Extension that traps the
PAPOpen call to PDEF 10 and inserts a kerberized login sequence into
the PAP stream.
:wes
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