CUPS Print Control

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On 11/22/05, *Ashwani Jain* <ashwani at gisil.com
> <mailto:ashwani at gisil.com>> wrote:
>
>         I am trying to setup a print server in linux Ubuntu 5.10 which
>     can do print accounting, i.e do page count for each job thats
>     printed on each locally attached printer, log the IP / hostname
>     who sent the print job etc.
>
>     Please help.  I want to know how to do it using CUPS.  I could not
>     find any good documentation where I could find the solution and
>     probably thats the week point of Linux that documentations are not
>     centralised.  Any way please help if you know about it.  Just give
>     me some good link which can solve the problem
>
>
>
> In this case the weak point isn't with the documentation -- CUPS is
> VERY extensively documented, both with files installed on your system
> and at http://www.cups.org/ BUT the implementation information is
> lacking -- I suspect that's the primary way the CUPS folks earn their
> consulting fees.
>
> I believe there are some helpful books on the subject -- check the
> O'Reilly web site http://www.oreilly.com/ -- I see from a few searches
> they have some free articles available too.
>

Is there any way to configure print sharing using a GUI in Ubuntu?  The
printer GUI allows you to set up a printer, but I couldn't find anything
on sharing.

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Brant Fitzsimmons
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