CUPS: no accounting on the w2k server (and that's bad!)

[Helge Blischke]

giacomo boffi wrote:
> 
> Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> writes:
> 
> > giacomo boffi wrote:
> >>
> >> i'd like to print on a printer connected to a w2k server, where i have
> >> an account, and all is well using CUPS and a smb://blabla url...
>                    ^/^/^/^/^/^
> >> what's my problem then?
> >>
> >> well, the accounting records on the server have that all my print jobs
> >> are 0 (zero) page long, like this
> 
> 01/03/2005,19.51.40,Print,Informazioni,Nessuno,10,xxxxx01\boffi,xxxxx,"Il
> documento 18, Documento remoto a bassa priorita appartenente a boffi e
> stato stampante su Xerox Document Centre 470 PS attraverso la porta
> IP_xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Dimensione: 1879231 byte; numero pagine stampate: 0. "
> .....................................................................^^
> 
> > How is the page accounting done?
> 
>   the accounting is (should be) done on the w2k server, honest i don't
>   know how that's implemented, but windows client's jobs generate an
>   accounting record that reports the number of pages printed
> 
>   my CUPS setup (done using gnome-cups-manager) is as follows:
> 
>   - using the Xerox PPD for the Document Centre 490/480/470/460 model
> 
>   - the "Accounting" box in the "Advanced" tab of gnome-cups-manager
>     is checked, but i think that would be ok only if my CUPS could
>     talk directly with the printer, that's not being the case as the
>     printer is on a private subnet
> 
> > Perhaps you could post (an URL to) both a file that works and one
> > that doesn't. Maybe from the differences I could suggest a
> > workaround.
> 
>   i'm sorry but that's impossible... 
Sorry, but then I'm not able to give more advice, so you will have to
live
with your issue.
>   if i print *any* postcript file
>   from my workstation, the w2k server prints the file, but reports 0
>   pages printed, while i do need that my jobs are regularly accounted
>   on the w2k server
> 
> thank you for your attention,
> ciao
>                                                         gb

Helge

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