Re: [WinMac] Macs Printing Past NT Security

Jorge Herrera(jherrera[at]one.net)
Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:23:47 -0400

NT allows you to "capture" the appletalk printer, thus hiding it from the
chooser and forcing the mac users to use the NT spooler in order to print.

check the port's properties in NT control panel for the "capture" setting.

-Jorge

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ritchie <mritchie@asu.edu>
To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998 12:06 PM
Subject: [WinMac] Macs Printing Past NT Security

>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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