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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I'll do my best to help you out.

[cdance]

It's funny. This is the 2nd Windows related print quota question on Slashdot in the last week! I developed the Windows print charging application PaperCut. I initial put PaperCut together in my final year at Uni as I saw a need for a product that worked. I now do full time Linux/Unix development but keep PaperCut dev going at night and in my somewhat limited spare time. It supports trusted domains as you have described and I (or my fellow developers) would be happy to help you out with any installation technical questions. Also seeing that your a fellow Slashdot reader, I'd be happy to offer you a free copy (free as in fee free. The Open Source Linux version is coming soon ;-) See my post on the related topic last week. ). ~Chris