[cups.general] Re : Cups authentication at networkprinter

[henri]

Dear Fabian and Ayhan,

You could install PrintAgent onto your print server.

PrintAgent is a component of part of PrintingWorks : http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/

Your users could then authenticate against PrintAgent and then you  
could lock down the printer so that it will only accept print jobs  
from the print server, which could be a PrintingWorks server if you  
want all the additional bells and whistles such as accounting and  
graphical management interface.

Hope this helps.

> Hi everybody,
>
> in our faculty we have a network printer, i.e. a Oce MP1050, which  
> needs authentication to allow printing. The users are already  
> configured locally at the Oce.
>
> In our Institute we run an internal Cups-Server, which we would like  
> to use also for the Oce. But the problem is, how can the users  
> authenticate themselfes at the Cups-Server and, more important, is  
> it possible to pass throug this information to the faculty printer?
>
> Thank you for your help. Have a nice day,
> Fabian and Ayhan