Subject: Re: Printer Access Control
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 14:40:17 EDT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Bryn Hughes wrote:
> Great...
>
> Will they also set anything up as far as capturing the queues
> themselves? By default netatalk doesn't seem to do this... And
> authentication is meaningless if the user can still just click on the
> printer instead of the queue.
No, there is no provision in netatalk for doing this. You might try
turning off appletalk on your printer and sending jobs to it from the
queue using a different protocol such has lpd.
Or, you can manually rename the printer's appletalk type and then tell
netatalk to look for the new type (which is all that really happens when
you "capture" a queue through Windows NT, etc).
Here is a message someone posted a while back about renaming a printer:
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Send this postscript to your printer with pap and it'll rename the printer
to Foo:Bar@* . You can then address it as such. This is a popular
technique to hide printers from folks who can't use ResEdit. This
postscript, of course, wouldn't work on anything that insists on good
Adobe document conventions.
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin /appletalktype (Bar) def end
statusdict begin (Foo) setprintername end
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Andy
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