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Re: Can I restrict printer access?
In article <1pb6rk$p91@slab.mtholyoke.edu>, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes...
>In article <1993Mar30.143628.48648@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> mcginnis@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>Is there a way to configure AppleTalk printing so that only designated
>>users can send jobs to a given printer? Perhaps a configuration
>>through the print server?
>
>Yes and no. You can create a setup whereby people can print to a
[stuff deleted]
>
>>I know that this can be easily done through Novell NetWare when the
>>Macintosh NLM is providing print services, but is there a way to do
>>it with AppleShare?
>
>Nope. Same arguments apply... and to Novell as well, btw., again unless
>you take the printer off the network and connect it directly to the server
>via its serial port.
>--
>Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu | Vending machines SHOULD respond to a [finger]
Sorry, but that's 100% wrong - most print spoolers, including the atps nlm in
Novell, provides this service. The spooler typically changes the printers
type from laserwriter to something else it knows about, so chooser can't
see it. The spooler then creates an appletalk entity giving it a type of
laserwriter. Chooser sees this, and users can send stuff to the spooler,
which passes it on the the printer if it's ok. Depending on the spooler and
printer, if you turn the printer off and back on, it will show up again
as a laserwriter. Some spoolers will rehide it - Novell will rehide it
as soon as a print job is sent to the novell spooler relating to that printer.
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