gmane.comp.printing.pykota.user

Re: pykota Digest, Vol 104, Issue 6

Bill Szkotnicki — 2012-05-17T12:45:55

Thanks
I didn't want to use "edpykota --delete" because the man page implies 
that the history would be deleted too and I need the past history.
I have come up with the following potential solution as yet untested.
1) Make all the printers but the one --passthrough
2) Then set all users to be "--limitby quota" and set their hard and 
soft balances to 0
3) Then on the one that is not passthrough give the selected users 
--limitby noquota
So then everyone can print on the 5 passthrough printers and the history 
is maintained.
And the select users can also print on the one restricted printer

If there is a better way I am all ears.

Bill

On 05/16/2012 07:58 AM, Germana Oliveira wrote:

Re: pykota Digest, Vol 104, Issue 6

Germana Oliveira — 2012-05-16T11:58:02

2012/5/16 <pykota-request-CRN2QmnblHuoKLMKz95RRw< at >public.gmane.org>



Well, i think you could do something like this to delete the users print
quota to a particular printer:

               edpykota --delete --printer PRINTER-NAME user1 user2

(probably there is a way to do this for ALL users)

and then add the users you want to that particular printer:

               edpykota --add --printer PRINTER-NAME user1 user2



And finally you can do "man edpykota"


Cheers!!

disallow users

Bill Szkotnicki — 2012-05-15T19:57:29

Hi,

I have 6 printers and all users are allowed noquota to print on all of 
the printers.
Now I want to only allow a few users to print on one particular printer .
Is there a way to remove all printing from the one printer and then put 
a few users back onto it?

Thanks, Bill

Cups + Pykota + LDAP

Germana Oliveira — 2012-05-15T15:58:03

Hi!

I already configure Pykota to use openLDAP, everything is ok, until i try
to add a printer:

pkprinters --add --description "Canon IR4570" --charge 0.20 CentroCopiado

The result:

ERROR: PyKotaStorageError: Problem adding LDAP entry
(cn=CentroCopiado,ou=Printers,ou=PyKota,dc=xxx,dc=com,dc=ve,
{'pykotapriceperpage': ['0.2'], 'objectclass': ['pykotaObject',
'pykotaPrinter'], 'pykotapriceperjob': ['0.0'], 'description': ['Canon
IR4570'], 'pykotapassthrough': ['f'], 'pykotaprintername':
['CentroCopiado'], 'pykotamaxjobsize': ['0'], 'cn': ['CentroCopiado']}) :
{'info': 'pykotaPricePerPage: attribute type undefined', 'desc': 'Undefined
attribute type'}

What am i missing?

Thanks!!!

Re: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

Germana Oliveira — 2012-05-10T13:54:29

2012/5/10 <pykota-request-CRN2QmnblHuoKLMKz95RRw< at >public.gmane.org>




Great!!!

I add the www-data user to pykota group and the pykota directory
permissions:

drwxr-xr--  2 pykota pykota  4096 may  9 13:47 pykota


That is how it works!!.

Thanks!!!


***** One Question: *****

If I use LDAP, Where the counters, printers and all that data is saved???
in LDAP server, in Pykota/CUPS server??

Re: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

2012-05-09T19:58:03

Your web server runs as an user (for example www-data on Debian) that
can't read ~pykota/pykota.conf

If your pykota.conf file is owned by pykota:pykota and chmod 0640, simply put the
www-data user into the pykota group and restart Apache.


This indicates that accounting works : moliveira has printed 1 page onto
printer Presidencia.


Then your permissions are correct on these files, but then probably the
www-data user (or similar, depending on your distribution) can't access
to the ~pykota/ directory.

bye

Jerome Alet

Re: Not Accounting

luis tejero — 2012-05-09T14:51:29


I recommend you that explain your solutions, because only I can see your
questions but not their answers.

Thanks..



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Re: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

Germana Oliveira — 2012-05-09T13:42:14

2012/5/9 <pykota-request-CRN2QmnblHuoKLMKz95RRw< at >public.gmane.org>


Hi!

I finally could print, but know i can NOT see the web reports (cgi) of
pykota beacause of this error:

pykota.config.PyKotaConfigError: Configuration file /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
can't be read. Please check that the file exists and that your permissions
are sufficient.

so i send the requested info.

pkusers --list
moliveira - <moliveira-hcDgGtZH8xNBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>
    Limited by : noquota
    Account balance : -0.20
    Total paid so far : 0.00
    Overcharging factor : 1.00

pkprinters --list
Presidencia [Prueba pykota] (0.0 + #*0.2)
    Passthrough mode : OFF
    Maximum job size : Unlimited
    Routed through PyKota : YES

edpykota --list
moliveira< at >Presidencia
    Page counter : 1
    Lifetime page counter : 1
    Soft limit : None
    Hard limit : None
    Date limit : None
    Maximum job size : Unlimited (Not supported yet)
    Warning banners printed : 0


this are the files and permission:

-rw-r--r-- 1 pykota pyko

Re: Fwd: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

2012-05-08T21:59:01

Of course.

Don't use this if you don't need this.

What you are experiencing is probably due to your users not being
allowed to print.

Could you send to me your pykota.conf and pykotadmin.conf files, as well
as the output of :

  pkusers --list TheNameOfAnUser
  pkprinters --list TheNameOfAPrinter
  edpykota --list --printer=TheNameOfTheSamePrinter TheNameOfTheSameUser

Send all this as message attachment, NOT inline (it's unreadable)

bye

Jerome Alet

Fwd: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

Germana Oliveira — 2012-05-08T20:50:40

Searchig for a solution, i guess this directive in pykota.conf is giving me
problems:

overwrite_jobticket : /usr/local/bin/pknotify --destination
$PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME:7654 --timeout 60 --denyafter 3 --checkauth
--ask "Username:$PYKOTAUSERNAME" "Password:password:"

So, Why??? Can i do something so pykota does not ask for a confirmation??

PD: I erase the askconfirmation directive.

Thanks!!!


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From: Germana Oliveira <germanaoliveirab-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>
Date: 2012/5/7
Subject: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota
To: pykota-CRN2QmnblHuoKLMKz95RRw< at >public.gmane.org


HI!!

I installed Pykota, add printers and users, But i can not print. Every time
i send a job to print: CUPS say the job was print, but when i check the
pykota reports it says CANCEL (in every job i send) and in the Printer
(hardware) nothing is printed. So it seems Pykota does not let me print,
but Why?

What am i missing?

SYS INFO:
Debian squeezy
CUPS v.1.4.4
Pykota v1.26_fixes_unoffi

Re: Not Accounting

luis tejero — 2012-05-08T16:27:01

I think your command is wrong, I use "edpykota --add user" to add a new user in
all my printers.


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Re: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

Germana Oliveira — 2012-05-08T12:15:09

2012/5/8 <pykota-request-CRN2QmnblHuoKLMKz95RRw< at >public.gmane.org>


I am using Postgres, and the policy is - Using what the How-to said in :
http://www.pykota.com/wiki/how-to-install-pykota-on-ubuntu-10-04-x86:

policy: external(/usr/local/bin/autopykota --initbalance 50.0)

- I create my user by hand (pkusers --add) and it has permission to print
(edpykota).

Thanks.

Re: Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

Michal Dobroczynski — 2012-05-07T19:16:32

Hi Germana,

On 7 May 2012 21:12, Germana Oliveira <germanaoliveirab-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

It's been a while since I was playing with PyKota - but:
- which backend are you using? (sql or LDAP?)
- how are you managing your accounts, i.e. do  you create them by hand
_before_ people print or do you have the so-called "initial policy"
for creating PyKota entries when one does not exist?


My guess would be - start looking around the initial policy for
creating new users (for cases when PyKota's backend does not have such
information).

Regards,
Michal

PS If your setup is LDAP-based then I can reach for my working configs

Jobs are CANCEL by Pykota

Germana Oliveira — 2012-05-07T19:12:27

HI!!

I installed Pykota, add printers and users, But i can not print. Every time
i send a job to print: CUPS say the job was print, but when i check the
pykota reports it says CANCEL (in every job i send) and in the Printer
(hardware) nothing is printed. So it seems Pykota does not let me print,
but Why?

What am i missing?

SYS INFO:
Debian squeezy
CUPS v.1.4.4
Pykota v1.26_fixes_unofficial

Re: ImportError: No module named pykota.tool

2012-04-25T20:04:27

Yes it's correct, sorry to not have answered to you earlier.


This was due to CUPS giving an incomplete answer to PyKota due to
restrictions in cupsd.conf

bye

Jerome Alet

Not Accounting

Germana Oliveira — 2012-04-25T14:42:05

Hi!

I already have my printer working with pykota (or that is what i think):

pkprinters -l
CentroCopiado [Canon (PRUEBA)] (0.0 + #*0.2)
    Passthrough mode : OFF
    Maximum job size : Unlimited
    Routed through PyKota : YES

I add a user (my user):  pkusers --add moliveira

And add a quota entry: eddpykota --add moliveira

But when i use the printer, the printer print the job, but it is not
reflected in the report:

repykota
Report for user quota on printer CentroCopiado (Canon (PRUEBA))
Pages grace time: 7 days
Price per job: 0.000
Price per page: 0.200
User           overcharge   used    soft    hard    balance grace
total       paid warn
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
moliveira       -Q   1.0       0    None    None
0.00                   0       0.00    0
                                                               Real
:         0


Or, am i using the wrong command?? am i missing something??

Thanks!!!

Re: ImportError: No module named pykota.tool

goliveira — 2012-04-25T13:42:03

Hi (again)

I "fix" my issue, i just put in cups.conf this:

<Location />
  # Allow shared printing...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow < at >LOCAL
</Location>

and pkturnkey --doconf works fine.

Is it right?



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Re: ImportError: No module named pykota.tool

goliveira — 2012-04-25T11:35:14


I am having this some issue with pykota, but i have squeezy and the pykota
modules are in: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ 

my error, here:
INFO: Please be patient...
INFO: Don't worry, the database WILL NOT BE MODIFIED.
INFO: Extracting all print queues.
ERROR: PyKota v1.26_fixes_unofficial
ERROR: pkturnkey failed
ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
ERROR:   File "/usr/local/bin/pkturnkey", line 536, in <module>
ERROR:     retcode = manager.main(args, options)
ERROR:   File "/usr/local/bin/pkturnkey", line 470, in main
ERROR:     printers = self.listPrinters(names)
ERROR:   File "/usr/local/bin/pkturnkey", line 113, in listPrinters
ERROR:     for queuename in server.getPrinters() :
ERROR:   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkipplib/pkipplib.py",
line 691, in getPrinters
ERROR:     return [printer[1] for printer in
self.doRequest(req).printer["printer-name"]]
ERROR: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'printer'

I have read a lot of solutions but with no succes.

Re: Adding printer to Pykota

2012-04-20T03:33:37

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:03:04AM -0430, Germana Oliveira wrote:

Could you send your cupsd.conf file to me, privately ?

Thx in advance

Jerome Alet

Re: Adding printer to Pykota

Germana Oliveira — 2012-04-16T11:33:04

CUPS v1.4.4

Yes, i launch this command as root.

2012/4/16 <pykota-request-CRN2QmnblHuoKLMKz95RRw< at >public.gmane.org>

Re: Adding printer to Pykota

2012-04-15T20:09:36

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:57:07PM -0430, Germana Oliveira wrote:

Which version of CUPS are you running ?
Did you launch this command as root ?


bye

Jerome Alet