what I was looking for was a bit more detailed than that.
it needs to identify which machine printed to what printer and how many pages.

that data would be displayed at the pay point and the user of that machine 
would then be charged the appropriate amount per page printed.

one last note, this must also be interoperable with a "windows publisher 
package". the person who wants this setup is very determined to have windows 
clients in the system and nothing I can do will change his mind. plus, he is 
willing to pay me good money to do what he wants..... so......


On Friday 10 June 2005 21:37, Bryce C wrote:
> For pages printed, scraping the data from a CUPS server should be no big
> problem, specifically if all the clients represent themselves as unique
> users, then narrow by timeframe.
> For the clients, I'd look at something like NoCatAuth. It's intended for
> wireless networks, or it was originally at least, but could probably be
> adapted to a wired network, simply requiring the user to "login" when
> they try and access the net (would you be doing anything else at a
> cybercafe? :-P) and then track their session length.
> Just my thoughts.
>
> -Bryce
>
> On Fri, 2005-10-06 at 12:27 -0700, Technomage wrote:
> > ok, I was recently handed a nice assignment, but I am not entirely sure
> > how to proceed with it.
> >
> > the scenario is this:
> >
> > a small cybercafe setup with 4 windows client machines hooked into a
> > linux backend machine (to act as printserver and accounting). this in
> > turn is hooked into a BSD firewall/bridging router.
> >
> > now. the other things I can handle, its the linux print server/accounting
> > box I am going to have a problem with.
> >
> > what I need is an accounting package that can account for time online of
> > specified users on each box, and to account also for how many pages each
> > one sends to the printer (the data collected and sent to another box
> > where it can be rung up as a cash register).
> >
> > since I am not entirely sure I am explaining this completely, I may need
> > some specified questions asked.
> >
> > can anyone help?
> >
> > TMH
> > 623-849-9515
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