Printing to Xerox with Xerox Standard Accounting enabled

[Helge Blischke]

Shawn K. wrote:
> At work, I have to print to a Xerox 7345 WorkCenter that has Xerox Standard Accounting enabled.  Windows users get a prompt when they print to enter a group number (in my case, 50), so that total printed pages can be tracked by group.  I get no such prompt with the Linux/CUPS/xerox ppd file.  I only get a series of beeps and a 016-757 error (invalid password). I have tried adding things to the url (ipp://192.168.0.22/ipp/?password=50, etc.).  I have tried creating a user with the name of the group and printing with that, but nothing works.  Does anyone have any insight?

I suspect the user input (e.g. the "50" for the group number etc.) gets somehow
encrypted by a proprietary algorithm.

In a similar case at our site (dealing with a multi purpose device from
another vendor) we installed a "fake printer" via samba which did nothing
but dump the print stream to a file which we then could inspect in order
to save the encrypted authentification data which we then used insede a
special CUPS backend.

It's tedious, but ...

Helge

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