How can I see the jobs from other users

lego legospace at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 04:02:29 PST 2008


> lego wrote:
> > Hello, I use two network printers via socket. There are a few (~10) computers in my LAN that also  use these printers.
> >
> > I need to administrate those printers, and I don't know how to do it (I know that I can allow specific users to print on some specific printers, and things like this, but it's not the case).
> >
> > When I want to view all jobs, I can only see my jobs, and not the ones from the other users.
> > If one user send a 500 pages job, I don't know how can I see it.
> > Can you tell me how Can I do it?
> >
> > Any tutorial will help me, some suggestions?
>
> You need to setup one system to talk to and share the printers.  This
> system will be the "server".  You can enable printer sharing using the
> web interface in CUPS 1.2 and higher (http://localhost:631/admin).
>
> If the rest of the systems are using CUPS, they should automatically
> see the printers and be able to print to them.  If not, edit/create
> the /etc/cups/client.conf file on the other systems and add a line
> reading:
>
>      ServerName your-server-hostname-or-IP
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>
But, if this server is powered off, will the other users be able to print?




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