Gary,
When I travel and work out of a hotel, sometimes I need to print to one of
the hotel's networked printer.
There is a web based service many of them use at www.printeron.com
Don't know if this would help or be too ***bersome?
On 12/15/07 4:16 PM, in article
garycarroll-5308E8.19165115122007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Gary Carroll"
<garycarroll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Consider a campus environment where users supply their own computers,
> which may be of differing operating systems. The users may print to a
> CUPS print server on the network and retrieve their job by swiping their
> ID card and selecting the job from the list.
> The trick is that I want only their jobs show in the list, and I want to
> limit the custom software installed on the user computer to a PPD.
> I can see a good deal of information about the incoming job from the
> network, but this is not always enough to guarantee that I can identify
> the specific user. For instance, while I can identify a specific
> computer (by mac address), some computers may be shared, and there is no
> validation that login names are unique.
> I would like to have a user have the option of entering a user ID in the
> print dialog box and have this passed to the print queue (as a comment).
> However, it seems that (a) a PPD only allows me to select from
> previously defined choices, not input a string, and (b) using edited
> PPDs to customize dialog boxes seems depreciated if I correctly
> interpret my scanty Apple do***entation.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion, or pointer in a promising direction?
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