Re: [WinMac] Re: Experiences with Print Manager Plus?
Tim Scoff(tscoff[at]pitt.edu)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 15:12:49 -0500
Another point to remember when you're investigating Print Quota
software for NT is it's very easy to bypass NT's print queues.
The only method of printing that NT supports which can lock out a
printer so that everything has to go through the server which I've found it
AppleTalk. The IP and DLC protocols both accept incoming print jobs from
anyone. I administer several printers at work and I am not interested in
doing any type of print quotas because I know how to find the IP address
(the only protocol which I'm allowed to use....) of the printers quickly
and easily as a guest on the network. With the IP address I can print
directly to the printer from anywhere in the world. I'm trying to figure
out how to block myself from being able to print from my home computer to
my computers at work and I can not figure out how to do it. Remember, I'm
required to give every one of them a published IP address and our
networking department does not have any firewalls blocking IP traffic.
Print Quotas don't work unless you can make it impossible to print to
the printer except by going through the server's print queue. The only way
I've found with NT Server to do that is use AppleTalk on the server to
communicate with the printers.
--On Wednesday, August 18, 1999, 2:50 PM -0500 "Daniel L. Schwartz"
<expresso@snip.net> wrote:
>
> This issue goes back almost 20 years, with Xerox introducing
>mechanical
> "copier key" counters so that the bean counters could "account" for copies
> made.
>
> Guess what?
>
> It cost more to round up the keys, record the numbers, and bill the
> appropriate departments than it did to run the copiers themselves!
>
[snip]
Tim Scoff
casper@nb.net
"Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. It was this
kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place."
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