SMB Queues In An Enterprise

[egadsby]

Dear Friends,

I am working in a higher ED IT shop that is primarily Windows based. In an attempt to implement a pay-for print system we need to have SMB based printing working on our Macs. Under Tiger we have been able to use this syntax to create a queue:
smb://domain/username:password@server/share

Thus creates the problem, the queue is “bound” to that user. When a new user logs in using the Active Directory plug-in jobs are still sent from the user who created the queue instead of the user who really sent the job. This makes it impossible to accurately implement pay-for-print.

How might this be corrected? Is there a better way to create this queue or is there a simple script we could implement that would add the printer after log-in? None of us have much experience with UNIX scripting so a sample would be exceptionally helpful!

Thanks in advance!

Peace, Love, & Understanding,

Eric Thomas Gadsby
Computer & Instrumentation Specialist
Goucher College’s Departments of Art and Science
410-337-6327
[email protected]

[egadsby]

Dear Friends,

Hello. Please pardon the long period between updates. For a while we thought we had this problem licked using LPT and Services for UNIX but found that our printing monitoring/quota software to only be partially compatible.

After some looking other places it seems that using Kerberos tickets would be ideal but there seem to be issue with smbspool.

This is a critical issue for us so I would appreciate any assistance possible. Thanks!

Peace, Love, & Understanding,

Eric Thomas Gadsby
Computer & Instrumentation Specialist
Goucher College’s Departments of Art and Science
410-337-6327
[email protected]

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