Print Quotas Under NT?

AmiOtaku asks: "I am a student lab coordinator for Southwest Texas State University and I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm looking for a way to limiting printing in several of my labs. Print Quota Manager and Print Manager Plus do not suit our needs. Both fail to obtain a list of users from our NT domain. Our server is not the primary domain controller for the campus, just the domain controller for our domain which has a trust relationship with the main domain for campus, but is not trusted, which is why both seem to fail in getting a list of user names. Anyway, if I could find a way to simply limit each print job to under X amount of pages, that would be a great help. Keeping a log of users and enforcing quotas would be nice but is really optional. Any ideas?" Before anyone starts delving into OS advocacy, I think it poignant to note that we did this same question for Linux, just last week.

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Another Option

[Anonymous Coward]

I work for a small college in Maine. We have been using Printer Accounting Server (PAS) from a small Canadian company called Software Metrics (http://www.metrics.com) since it was a 1.0 product running on our NT domain. We now have their 2.5.x product installed on our Win2k print server, pulling in usernames from our Win2k Active Directory domain.

I'm not sure if it will meet your needs, since we have full access to our DCs, but you may want to take a look.

-BA