The print server is very weak under 10.3.
We dont even get a message window when a user has exceeded their quota.
When you print a page
after you've exceeded your quota it looks like it goes through as
normal, but the printer doesnt respond.
No Feedback whatsoever!!
Are you using Server Admin and then the Print Service to setup queues??
Scott
On 07/09/2005, at 12:29 PM, Jim Cartlidge wrote:
Greetings,
The one piece of my network that I have not been able to put into
place since moving to OS X from OS 9 is a reliable print quota system
that will manage student printing quotas.
I was using MacLaser Biller under OS 9 and with it, students would
enter a password when they went to print and a dialogue box would
inform them of how many print jobs they had left. We issued them 25
print credits when they entered high school and sold them additional
pages at a cost of $5 for 100 pages. They would buy the pages through
the office and their accounts would be updated daily. (the added
bonus of having the print quota separate from the account was that a
student could be "out of pages" but have a friend enter their name and
password to "lend" them pages if they were in a jam) Unfortunately
the company ceased operation as they were trying to move to OS X.
I would like a system that managed both OS X and OS 9 printing if
possible as I still have a lab of OS 9 machines. If need be, I could
run one system for each platform but would like to avoid it.
I heard many times that the print management part of OS X server was
weak up to 10.3 but haven't heard if 10.4's improvements have made a
big difference in the real world.
Last year students could print for free from the OS X machines in the
library and multimedia lab and printing costs started to rise once
they figured that out!
Anyone running a quota system that works in a high school?
Jim Cartlidge
Network Resources Dept Head
Brookswood Secondary School
20902 37A Ave
Langley, BC Canada
604-530-2141 ext 250
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