samba - Mar 2004 - Samba printing and page counting

Hi, I'm running Samba printing services to share a printer on my Linux box
with a network of windows machines. Everything works great. The only problem I
am having is that I cannot count the number of pages printed by each user.

My printers section looks like this:
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   guest ok = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   public = no
   create mask = 0700
   print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r -J "%m.%J"
   lpq command = lpstat -o %p
   lprm command = cancel %p-%j

If I had a script or escape sequence that would specify the number of pages of
the print document I would have no problem writing a script to keep track of
everything else. The easiest solution I see to my problem is if samba has a nice
escape sequence, like %P or something, or if there was a little script I could
pass the spool document to and it'd tell me. Since I'm printing raw, and
the windows drivers are pcl, I doubt there's any script that would work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Matt

Try the CUPS printer drivers for windows.. (version 5 ??)
they support page counting, coz it convert your printing page
to a pdf format.. and then you can see the number of pages
at one of the last lines..

easy to make a script who's filtering out the page numbers
and prosses it to the account..
l8r
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Collen Blijenberg (MLHJ)

Thursday, March 4, 2004, 10:31:46 PM, you wrote:

ML> Hi, I'm running Samba printing services to share a printer on
ML> my Linux box with a network of windows machines. Everything works
ML> great. The only problem I am having is that I cannot count the
ML> number of pages printed by each user. 

ML> My printers section looks like this:
ML> [printers]
ML>    comment = All Printers
ML>    browseable = no
ML>    guest ok = no
ML>    path = /var/spool/samba
ML>    printable = yes
ML>    public = no
ML>    create mask = 0700
ML>    print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r -J "%m.%J"
ML>    lpq command = lpstat -o %p
ML>    lprm command = cancel %p-%j

ML> If I had a script or escape sequence that would specify the
ML> number of pages of the print document I would have no problem
ML> writing a script to keep track of everything else. The easiest
ML> solution I see to my problem is if samba has a nice escape
ML> sequence, like %P or something, or if there was a little script I
ML> could pass the spool document to and it'd tell me. Since I'm
ML> printing raw, and the windows drivers are pcl, I doubt there's any
ML> script that would work.

ML> Any help is greatly appreciated.

ML> Matt