samba - Jul 2005 - Page Accounting with Samba

Hi all,
    We have a Debian Sarge Box with Samba 3.0.14a and Cups 1.1.23-10
    for sharing files and printers.
    For printing we had cups configured to understand postscript files
    produced by the postscript driver in the windows clients. With this
    configuration we have no problems for doing Page Accounting with cups.
    But we had a lot of problems with some documents (powerpoint, some
    pdf's, etc.) because they made very big jobs.

    So, we decided to put cups in Raw Mode, and use the PCL6 Driver
    for the windows clients (and now, all documents are printed fast
    and correctly). But now (obviously) cups don't process the file
    (because it sends directly to the printer) and don't know how many pages
    the people prints. But i can see on the printer queue in the windows
    clients that the number of pages are shown.

    And my question is: is there a way for making samba able to get this
    number of pages (shown in the windows client queue)and make some page
    accounting on the server side?

    Thx very much!

Xavi

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:27:47PM +0200, Xavi Le?n
wrote:
> Hi all,
>    We have a Debian Sarge Box with Samba 3.0.14a and Cups 1.1.23-10
>    for sharing files and printers.
>    For printing we had cups configured to understand postscript files
>    produced by the postscript driver in the windows clients. With this
>    configuration we have no problems for doing Page Accounting with cups.
>    But we had a lot of problems with some documents (powerpoint, some
>    pdf's, etc.) because they made very big jobs.
> 
>    So, we decided to put cups in Raw Mode, and use the PCL6 Driver
>    for the windows clients (and now, all documents are printed fast
>    and correctly). But now (obviously) cups don't process the file
>    (because it sends directly to the printer) and don't know how many
pages
>    the people prints. But i can see on the printer queue in the windows
>    clients that the number of pages are shown.
> 
>    And my question is: is there a way for making samba able to get this
>    number of pages (shown in the windows client queue)and make some page
>    accounting on the server side?
The complete solution to your problem :

  http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation
  
And if you're only interested in counting pages :  

  http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/pkpgcounter/action_Presentation
  
  which natively supports PostScript (DSC compliant and binary), PDF,
  PCLXL (aka PCL6), PCL3/4/5 (depending on the driver), ESC/P2,
  DVI, TIFF, OpenOffice.org Writer and OpenOffice.org Impress.
  
hth  

Jerome Alet