[cups.general] Shared printer: Who & What Print?

[Alex Janssen]

Salvatore Baglieri said the following on 05/31/2008 11:47 AM:
> Hi *,
> A customer asked me a way to log what users print.
>
> Use case:
> X desktop users (Windows) -> Print
> Y desktop user (Windows) -> Check
>
> X print a document, his PC asks him an username and a passwrd and send the spool to the printer.
>
> Y wants a web interface with a log:
> datetime - user - printed_pdf.
>
> Do i need of a server with cups?? Are there printers with all this system embedded?
>
>
> My idea is a virtual printer (as the PDFs one):
> 1. ask username
> 2. query on SQL db
> 3. send the spool to the cups server
>
> Is there something in java? I did something like this as fax sender.
>
> A friend of mine told me that I can build this using few bash commands. Is it possible?
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On my network I have Ubuntu 7.10 running CUPS with a laser and a high 
speed line matrix printer.
I can see the job queue from any computer on the network with a browser 
connecting to http://myprintserver:631/jobs.
It lists every job with who sent it, the time it was sent and other data.
That sounds like what you are looking for.

Alex

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