Windows 2000 Print Server

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

We currently print via a direct IP setup at work but we want to change to using a print server to make things easier. We have a box that we will be putting Windows 2000 Advanced Server on that we want to use as a print server. The printers we have are mainly Xerox/Tektronix Phase 780s, Small Lexmark T612 and S1855s, and some big Canon 330/400s. Some of the printers have built in print servers but most do not and we don't have any way of tracking usage.

Does windows include logging capabilities so we can get information such as who's printing what, when, etc? That is an important requirement that we have to have. I couldn't find any sites that really talked in any detail about the Print Server function of a Windows Server machine so if anyone has any info, let me know.

Thanks.

 

[OffTopic1]

I don't recall Windows 2000 have printing quota setting. However, you can get third party tools such as Printing Manager Plus that can keep tap on the printing quantity on each printer.

Another route is to setup a Linux/Unix box and run Samba server, because it have printing quantity control.

 

[Kelemvor]

We don't really need to put a quota on things, we ust need to know who's printing so if we see someone is abusing it we can go talk to them. Mainly just the same thing you get when you go to a printer and view the Job Log, but we just want it stored forever on the server.

 

[OffTopic1]

I don't think Win2k server keep a log on how many prints per print job, but you can look at the Event Viewer to see computer & time that each print job generated.

You can increase the catch memory to accomodate a larger log file or periodically save the log file.

 

[loup garou]

Found via google. No experience with it, but it looks pretty nice. If you try it out, let me know if it's any good, I'm sure some of my clients would like to use this for monitoring.