[cups.general] Re: pstops not being called

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Wed Jun 9 03:27:39 PDT 2004


Martin Drab wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
> > What looks your printing setup in samba like?
> >
> > Helge
> >
> >
> > Daniel Lawson wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to set up printer accounting (very trivial, just want
> > > job/page counts per user / printer - don't care about quota, just want
> > > to yell at person(s) printing too much).
> > >
> > > I have an HP Color Laserjet 4550 CN, which is set up via cups (1.1.20)
> > > using the vendor provided PPD. I'm sharing the printer via samba,
> > > however I've tried via IPP as well to no avail. I'm using the 4550 PS
> > > driver under WinXP.
> > >
> > > It seems that pstops is not being called when printing from this host,
> > > and this is the reason for the accounting to fail.
> 
> Perhaps you may have the same problem I had?
> 
> > > The problem is this:
> > >
> > > * If I print from the Windows XP host, I don't get an entry in the page_log.
> > >
> > > * If I print from the cups web interface, I get an entry in the page_log.
> > >
> > > * If I print from the Windows XP host using the 4550 PCL driver, I get an entry in the page_log.
> > >
> > > Now, I could reinstall all the printers to use the PCL driver, but this *should* work!
> > >
> > > I've strace()d cups while printing, and pstops doesn't get called if I
> > > use the 4550 PS driver under XP, however it *does* get called in all
> > > the other situations.
> > >
> > > I'm figuring there is something trivial I'm missing. Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Running Debian Woody, with backports for cups (1.1.20), gs-esp
> > > (7.05.6) and samba3 (3.0.4)
> 
> I don't know how much does HP 4550 differ from HP 4600, but perhaps if you
> want to look for what config files and PPD I'm using for the HP 4600dn,
> you can take a look at <http://kiplprint.fjfi.cvut.cz/ppd/>. The page
> accounting is now working perfectly. I'm then using LIRE to create some
> basic statistics.
> 
Well, I askedfor the smb.conf just to be sure. As you configured
printing = cups, everything should be OK from that end.

Helge


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