Dynamic Spool Allocation

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Feb 16 03:34:03 PST 2006


Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> 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...
Or you could set up your "queue" as a class with the appropriate
printers as members, which are stopped by default, and then release the
class member you want the jobs go to.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com

Helge

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