Is there a way to get the originating hostname or IP into the Jobs Web GUI?

[Helge Blischke]

Peter Schwenk wrote:

> I am using the version of CUPS that comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard which
> is 1.4.7.  I am using a Mac as a print server of sorts.  I have a bunch of
> Epson large format inkjet printers connected to the Mac via USB.  I am
> sharing the printers.
> 
> Printing seems to work fine, but I am holding all jobs so that print
> operator can release them.  The problem is that in the CUPS web gui (and
> the Mac print queue GUI) there is no indication of from which host the
> print jobs originated.  In this situation, I need to know from which
> computer the jobs originate so that the print operator can release the
> correct jobs (people pay for the print outs before the jobs are released).
> 
> I was looking in the cupsd.conf man page and saw the PageLogFormat option,
> but that only affects the page_log file.  Interestingly enough, on the
> print server (the machine the printers are directly connected to via USB)
> the page_log is not populating with entries at all.  It would be nice to
> know what pages are being printed through the server.
> 
> Anyway, if someone has an idea of how to get the originating host name in
> the web gui for jobs, that would be great.  Thanks for your consideration.

You could try to insert handling of the job-originating-host-name into 
/usr/share/cups/templates/xy/jobs.tmpl
(xy: the localization directory name).

Helge