Printer accounting

[Christian Barth]

> Hello,
> 
> can somebody tell me if it is possible to count the pages per user to a
> printer attached to a 2.2.1a Samba RH 7.1 server.
> I have a NT4 PDC which does not support a printer accunting  (or more
> clear - I get my event log full, because I have limited it to 512 kb,
> but I constantly have a SCSI error). So  I cannot depend on the event
> log.
> 
Printer accounting has nothing to do with samba, as this is done / 
should be done on the unix level of the print system. LPRng shiped 
with RH 7.1 offers a good printer accounting, see www.lprng.org, I 
have never configured it. If you use cups, cups propably offers 
accounting to. If you use a print demon with out accounting you can 
insert a "page counting hack" into the print filter, whicht works 
quite good with postscript printers.

Christian


> I will appreciate any help.
> 
> 


               _(_)_                          wWWWw   _
   @@@@       (_)@(_)   vVVVv     _     @@@@  (___) _(_)_
  @@()@@ wWWWw  (_)\    (___)   _(_)_  @@()@@   Y  (_)@(_)
   @@@@  (___)     `|/    Y    (_)@(_)  @@@@   \|/   (_)\
    /      Y       \|    \|/    /(_)    \|      |/      |
 \ |     \ |/       | / \ | /  \|/       |/    \|      \|/
jgs|//   \\|///  \\\|//\\\|/// \|///  \\\|//  \\|//  \\\|// 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^