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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Speaking of Feature bloat

[CounterZer0]

Could this be a feature not built into Win2K? I've googled and searched both technet and MSDN, and can't find a thing mentioning print quotas. It appears this has to managed by a third party product!!

For Money or Free?

[yancey]

I'm not sure about Win32, but Novell Distributed Print Services has code hooks that would allow such monitoring and control.

You can get the developer documentation for free from Novell's website. If you have a programmer available you could write an in-house solution.

If that solution worked out, you might be able to make some money from it.