We have it working fine. There are many shortcomings though.....
I'll run through the steps as far as I can remember them.
1)I set up the print queue using Server Admin for each printer.
I set them up as LPD printers and shared them via bon jour.
2) Next I went to the physical server and logged in as the admin user
and opened up the printer setup utility and set the PPD files so the
printers had the proper description.
3) I used WorkGroup Manager to automatically add the printers that do
not use quotas but I also allowed users to add other printers . I
also set the quotas for the queues
4) Then I had to visit each machine and manually added the printers
with the proper PPDs for each printer that used the print quotas.
This was the only way I could get quotas to work.
The Mac OS X quotas do not notify users of their print count, nor
does it notify users when it does not print due to a quota limit
being reached.
Hope this helps.
Kevin Wesel
On Dec 8, 2005, at 6:32 AM, Rich Eaton wrote:
10.4.3 server/client - more info about testing
OK - I have set up a queue for the HP 4200 printer I have. The only
way I can get a satisfactory result when I add the printer queue to
the client machine in is if the queue settings are shared IPP, LPR
and through Bonjour. In Bonjour there are two entries for the same
queue, one has no info for host etc. and is listed as 'Bonjour';
the other is a 'Shared Printer' and lists the host as
'myserver'@ourdomain.ac.uk which is correct.
I add the 'Shared Printer' entry in Bonjour to the client machine
as this has the correct host for the queue. I get less info if I
try adding the printer as an LPR or IPP using the IP address of the
server providing the queue, as I used to in 10.3.9. It certainly
doesn't display the host at all automatically.
I have always found Print Service and adding queues to the server
and client confusing. Either way, users have quotas set for all
queues and an entry is added to the ...quotastats.plist file on the
sever when the user first tries to print to the queue. The print
list shows all jobs as stopped from the client machine and jobs
won't go through. The only print job I sent successfully was from
the local admin user on the server, after I set the local admin
user quota to 'all queues', the same as the LDAP users. The next
page I tried generated a 'Error while printing' message, which I
presume is the same error on the client machine for the managed
users, but with no system message.
Our server has a reverse DNS entry in our Windows domain. The only
thing the server provides is AFP, Open Directory (Master) and (when
I can get them functioning properly again in 10.4) NetBoot (for
periodic installing) and Print Service (for one laserjet).
I would really be interested to know if anyone has a successful
queue + quotas running in 10.4.x (especially 10.4.3 which mentioned
a Print Service fix in the update notes).
Thanks
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