[WinMac] Re: Experiences with Print Manager Plus?
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:23:40 -0500
See below
At 03:12 PM 8/18/99 -0500, Tim wrote:
> 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.
Or to hook the printer directly up to the NT server via a
parallel cable,
taking the printer itself off the LAN/MAN/WAN... Then NT's security can go
to work, as can print accounting software. BUT, this requires the
printer(s) to be within about 25 cable feet (or so) of the NT spooler for
the parallel cable connection to work.
The upside to all this is that spooling is a low CPU utilization task,
meaning that if you have a dedicated NT box performing this duty then it
can be something like a rePentium 120 with multiple parallel ports...
Cheers, and copyright,
Dan
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