[Samba] Logging print jobs

[Luke Barone]

Dang it... Alright, thought I'd try. Thanks for the detailed info!

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 3:57 PM Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 15:46 -0700, Luke Barone via samba wrote:
> > Is there a way to log who is printing how many pages to what printer
> > on a
> > Samba Print Server?
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> The number of pages bit is hard, because Samba typically uses the
> proprietary driver for the printer, not a generic postscript one (some
> very early configurations used that, but this was far from the norm),
> so counting pages is hard.
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> CUPS just sees it as a RAW job.
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> Looking online some have done this by querying the printer for page
> stats after each job.
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> Otherwise, I suggest this ends up in the big 'print release system'
> space, as used at universities etc.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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