[Samba] Need help getting colour printing features restricted to a specific group

Chris Smith smb_77 at chrissmith.org
Thu Sep 29 14:17:11 MDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Gary Greene
<ggreene at minervanetworks.com> wrote:
> I¹ve got a Ricoh multi-function printer/copier that I need to restrict the
> colour printing functions to only members of the @ColorPrinting group. I¹ve
> two print queues for the Ricoh, one colour, one not. Unfortunately, even
> users on the B&W queue can change the colour settings on the print dialog in
> Windows and bypass the restriction and prints in colour.

Never thought about trying such a thing, but maybe editing the PPD of
the "B&W" printer so that it mimics a similar non-color capable
printer and therefore doesn't offer color options.

Chris


More information about the samba mailing list