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We have a serious problem and would appreciate any help anybody can
offer.  I will post a summary if and when I get enough replies.

SITUATION:  We are in a university environment with several separate
schools, each with their own subnet.  There is, however, campus-wide
Appletalk, which means that someone on an Mac in the engineering school
can access Appletalk services all the way over in the business school for
example.

PROBLEM:  We have several printers that we would like to RESTRICT access
to.  (We only want people in our Appletalk zone to see and have access to
these printers).  The problem is that if we turn on these printers,
everyone across campus can theoretically print out hundreds of pages to
these printers.

PROBLEM #2:  Netware 3.11 has a printer "hiding" utility.  It takes the
Appletalk printer off the network and assigns it a NW_ queue which
handles all printing.  This is fine and dandy, but it appears that
printing PostScript Level 2 through this configuration is unreliable.
Apparently, there are a few incompatibilities involved in this setup, so
it's unacceptable for our operations unfortunately.

QUESTION:  Is there some sort of utility that can "hide" our printers and
other Appletalk resources from other Macintosh users across campus (that
have access through campus-wide Appletalk?)  We need a solution that is
specific to our zone.  (I have heard of Laserwriter Lockout, but that
wouldn't work in our situation.)  Please help if you can!

Thanks in advance for any replies, and I will post a summary when I get
enough information.

Michael L. Sung
msung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu