Howdy, I'm looking for a piece of software I can use for accounting printers shared on a Linux box via Samba, to Win98/2K/XP machines on a domain. In other words, I want to be able to give user a print quota (say, $3.00), then charge them 10c per page they print from a Windows client to a printer shared from a Linux box running Samba. If they're out of quota, it doesn't print (and doesn't tie up the print queue for everybody else). I can't find any workable solutions. I tried PrintBill, but it's rather buggy, it tends to jam up queues randomly, and requires a Postscript driver and as a result there's all sorts of ways to bypass it. I'm more than happy with a commercial solution. I just want something that works :-) Thanks, Ryan -- Qbalt Project (http://www.qbalt.com/)
Hi Ryan, You can try PyKota. http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation Bruno. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Verner" <xfesty@computeraddictions.com.au> To: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: [Samba] Samba Printer Accounting> Howdy, > > I'm looking for a piece of software I can use for accounting printers > shared > on a Linux box via Samba, to Win98/2K/XP machines on a domain. In other > words, I want to be able to give user a print quota (say, $3.00), then > charge > them 10c per page they print from a Windows client to a printer shared > from a > Linux box running Samba. If they're out of quota, it doesn't print (and > doesn't tie up the print queue for everybody else). > > I can't find any workable solutions. I tried PrintBill, but it's rather > buggy, it tends to jam up queues randomly, and requires a Postscript > driver > and as a result there's all sorts of ways to bypass it. > > I'm more than happy with a commercial solution. I just want something > that > works :-) > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > -- > Qbalt Project (http://www.qbalt.com/) > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
Ryan Verner wrote:> Howdy, > > I'm looking for a piece of software I can use for accounting printers shared > on a Linux box via Samba, to Win98/2K/XP machines on a domain. In other > words, I want to be able to give user a print quota (say, $3.00), then charge > them 10c per page they print from a Windows client to a printer shared from a > Linux box running Samba. If they're out of quota, it doesn't print (and > doesn't tie up the print queue for everybody else). > > I can't find any workable solutions. I tried PrintBill, but it's rather > buggy, it tends to jam up queues randomly, and requires a Postscript driver > and as a result there's all sorts of ways to bypass it. > > I'm more than happy with a commercial solution. I just want something that > works :-) > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > -- > Qbalt Project (http://www.qbalt.com/) >This software does just what you want. http://www.ib.unicamp.br/ibquota/ Unfortunately all the docs are in portuguese (the fish can help to handle this - http://babelfish.altavista.com) But the software is realy god. You can manage quotas from an web frontend. It requires apache, php, mysql and of course samba and cups. I hope it helps. Regards, -- Filipi Vianna Laborat?rio de Mec?nica Computacional (DEMM) Faculdade de Engenharia - PUC-RS telefone: (51) 3320-3500 ramal: 4053