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We spool all our lpr jobs to an NT box running lpd. All works under OS9. The
NT box receives the print request and checks if it is a registered user
(owner of the machine) checks the print quota etc and then prints.

Under lpr on OSX in the terminal app all is fine. When user "harry" issues
an lpr job, then it is user harry whose job is spooled, authenticated and
printed. When you use a MacOS X application however all your print jobs are
sent as user "root" and if root can't print, or doesn't have a quota, the
print job will simply die a quiet death registering some information in the
bowels of the NT box's logs. (users only get access via DHCP and hardware
ethernet address so that's how we authenticate initially)
I should add it makes no difference whether you are an OSX admin user or
not.

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