Stopping access to Local Mac printers

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2 total messages Started by Mike Wilson Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00

#30

Author: Mike Wilson
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00

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We have just added some of our Macs to our campus network (Ethernet).  The
day we did, one of the Mac users called and said someone was printing images
on his printer from somewhere on the network.  We support mainly IBM PC's 
and admit we know very little about the Macs.  How can we limit who can print
to a printer connected to a Mac on the network.  The person that complained
has a laser printer connected by a thinnet segment to his Mac and that segment
is connected to our ethernet backbone.

Thanks for any help and assistance.

Mike Wilson
Support Specialist
Northwestern State University
Natchithoches, LA  71497

Re: Stopping access to Local Mac printers

#31

Author: Alex Bienefelt
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00

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mike@alpha.nsula.edu (Mike Wilson) wrote:

>We have just added some of our Macs to our campus network (Ethernet).  The
>day we did, one of the Mac users called and said someone was printing images
>on his printer from somewhere on the network.  We support mainly IBM PC's 
>and admit we know very little about the Macs.  How can we limit who can print
>to a printer connected to a Mac on the network.  The person that complained
>has a laser printer connected by a thinnet segment to his Mac and that segment
>is connected to our ethernet backbone.

>Thanks for any help and assistance.

Mike,

As you haven't supplied what NOS (Network Operating System) software
you're using, this reply is going to assume you're using Novell
NetWare 3.1x  If that is the case, does the Mac printer have a print
queue set up for it on the Novell system (ie, use PCONSOLE to monitor
it's print queue)?

Ok, now assuming all this is true, you can limit who is able to submit
print jobs to the queue, either by group or user.  By default Novell
allocates the group EVERYONE to every print queue, but you can remove
that and create a group called, say MAC_PRINTER and only users who are
a member of this group would be able to see the print queue and thus
submit print jobs to it.  Then all you would need do is add the
appropriate users to the group (ie, the ones you want to ALLOW to use
the printer.

Does this help you?

- Alex
(Replies to: alexb@firststate.com.au)

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