[Samba] Is there a console tool to monitor&control&log&notify the print queue information?

[Johan Hendriks]

>I setup a central Fedora 11 printer server in a big office for 80+ windows
>clients due to the max 10 connections limitation of windows 2000/xp. 2
>physical printers are connected to the server, and I configured 3 CUPS
>printers(1 printer with 2 different printer drivers) in Fedora 11.

>Is there a console tool to
>1. Monitor the print queue(s) in real-time like windows system? A history
>windows hold some recent printed jobs information, and a real-time window
>hold the current printing/queueing jobs information. The current
>printing/queueing job information contains the information like windows
>system provided such as: Document Name, Status, Owner, Pages, File Size,
>Submit Time, Port.

>2. Control the print queue(s). Everyone who stand in front of Fedora 11 can
>cancel any print job.

>3. Log the job informations. Log job information to database, especially the
>'Pages' and 'Owner' info of a job, so that I get a total Pages/Papers
>consumed in a month. CUPS can't provide a correct Pages value if job comes
>from Samba.

>4. Notify the Owner when the job is finished via windows messenger
>mechanism. Many workmates(especially workmates from HR department) often
>print documents which have hundreds of pages. Their office is 30+ meters far
>from the printer, they rarely watch the print queue in their windows
>workstation, and watching a 'hundreds of pages' print job is boring. So, if
>owner can be notified when print job is finished, it will be very
>convenient. (hmmm, it's a weird idea that job information been notified via
>windows messenger mechanism, but windows messenger service comes with
>windows 2000+ system, so client users don't need install other softwares to
>receive notification.)

>ps:
>(1). the printer server is an old computer (Celeron 900MHz, 128M+32M
>memory), so it's not good to run GUI desktop.
>(2). Document name contains Chinese characters, all I know is: there's an
>open source project named zhCon to deal the display/input of
>Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters in text console mode. And the encoding of
>zhCon may be different to the linux system (I mean, the linux system may
>have LANG=en_US.UTF-8, but zhCon may working with zh_CN.GBK), so the
>encoding can be configurable.

>:working:
>If there's no such a tool, can anybody guide me how to get these print queue
>information from Samba?

>Any hint will be appreciated! :)

Can't you use the webbased frontend of CUPS
Like http://your-printserver:631/admin

You need to edit the cups config file to allow other machine's other then localhost to acces the web gui.

Here you find some info
http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#5_3

regards,
Johan



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