I have the following problem. We have an LPS17 Print Server set up
using v5.10 of the PrintServer Software (under Tru64 Unix v4.0E pk#4).
We print from a number of Compaq Unix computers where this software is
installed as well as from other machines using their normal print
software for remote printers. In addition, we printed from Novell
Netware. In all cases, we had a record of who printed what from where,
i.e. a complete record of accounting.
Recently, the printing from Novell Netware was changed by the people
who run those servers to print to our printer via tcp. As a result,
all print jobs sent from that server look the same to the printer and
its central accounting file, namely, all the jobs are printed by user
LPS17-600 from the server hostname.
This is not quite inconvenient for us. We don't charge for
printing, but we surely need to know who is printing what and how much.
My question is, is there any way to recover the user information, i.e.
to know which userid on that Novell Netware host is actually sending the
print job? The Novell people say no.
One thing that seems a little strange to me is that before, you could
restrict which machines could print on your printer with the
/etc/hosts.lpd file. But this seems to be no longer the case with a
network printer. It seems that any host can print to it via tcp.
As an aside, it is possible to install the LPS PrintServer Software Client
on a Novell server with BINDERY emulation enabled, but that is not
supported here. I believe that all the Novell servers here are running
version 5.
Thanks,
Peter
Peter Stern
Chemical Physics Department
Weizmann Institute of Science
76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
email: Peter.Stern_at_weizmann.ac.il
phone: 972-8-9342096
fax: 972-8-9344123
Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 12:19:42 NZST