Subject: Re: Does Netatalk allow printer accounting ...
From: Stefan Bethke (stefan@promo.de)
Date: Wed Jun 25 1997 - 08:10:26 EDT
At 13:22 Uhr +0200 25.06.1997, Dejan Ilic wrote:
>Sorry for a little offtopic question but I have a urgent need need of
>printer accounting. Is thet any commercial package that does is a) as a
>separate product or b) as a part of a full system.
To the best of my knowledge, there are three genuine AFP/PAP products for Unix:
- Helios EtherShare, http://www.helios.com/
- IPT uShare, http://www.ipt.com/
- XiNet KAShare, http://www.xinet.com/
I don't know much about uShare and KAShare (well, I happen to work for the
German Helios distributor), but EtherShare has an accounting facilitly,
logging the number of pages that have been printed (if the printer dos
support it!), the size of the job, and some other details. Additionally,
EtherShare can be configured to only accept jobs if the Mac sending the job
also has an active AFP session to that server. The log then also contains
the username the AFP session is authenticated as.
Hope this helps,
Stefan
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