Dynamic Spool Allocation

[Michael Sweet]

ashley at qtac.edu.au wrote:
> i've had a request from the boss to change our already existing cups server. I've dealt very little with CUPS over the years and am looking for some help.
> 
> What we want to do is have all the windows machines printing to a 'queue', these would be labeled something like 'stationery','letterheads' blah blah and once a user prints to a queue, it sits on the server and waits for the queue to be assigned to a printer.
> 
> There's a long story as why we want this but i'm not going to get into it, it's really irrelevant.
> 
> Does cups have the capabilities of doing this?

Not specifically, but you can setup queues that are stopped but
accepting jobs, and then move the jobs to a real printer to print
them...

> Also need to work out some kind of account management - printer
 > quotas. Can cups do this? (we use OpenLDAP)

There is some basic built-in support for quotas - a single quota
limit for all users on a printer.  If you want something more complex,
you'll need to use a third-party add-on like Pykota.

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