[WinMac] Macs Printing Past NT Security

Michael Ritchie(mritchie[at]asu.edu)
Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:05:36 -0700 (MST)

Hello,

We have a problem in our Library regarding Macs and NT 4.0.
Recently we had installed Print Manager Plus on NT to count the
nubmer of print outs our students print. This way we can moniter
the amount of paper each student uses each month and charge them
according to use. The first problem we encountered was that the
Macs in out lab (two G3's) were bipassing the Windows NT and printing
directly to the printers. So the solution was to install Dave 2.0 on
each Mac and Print Manager Plus on the NT side to meter printing. We also had
to secure the Macs and our IS picked At-Ease. In this manner, each student
logs into the Macs using a generic password, and when they want to print they
must log in again using the same Username/Password that they do to log into
the Windows computers in the lab, all the time Dave 2.0 runs secretly in the
background. So, even though this is a pain to have two seperate login
screens, the sytem was keeping our IS from booting the Macs off the network,
until now.

The problem now is that out library has individual Ethernet connections at
various desks and tables through out the library that connect directly to our
server. If a student hooks their Mac PowerBook up to these Ethernet
connections, their Macs will just check what printers are aailabe on the
network and print directly to that printer without getting authentication from
our server.

We would like a difinitive solution to secure the Macs, all Macs, that hook up
to our network that mirrors the security each Windows computer does. The best
solution would be for the Macs to have a login screen the same as each
Windows, using a single Username/Password, and then have each of their print
outs counted no matter where they print from, computer lab or via Ethernet
connection. I am guessing that the solution must be on the NT side because we
can not require each student with a Mac to install Dave 2.0.

Michael Ritchie
Graduate Student
Information Tech/Mng.
Arizona State University

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