Identy of user printing to shared printer

[lonestar36]

Is there a way to identify the user that is printing to a shared printer. I have a school lab that has a shared printer and some of the kids think it is great sport send junk to the printer and I would like to be able to identify who is printing ( like a header/footer). The HP laser Jet I am using does not have banner pages like the big Xerox printers.

 

[Mike555]

Lookup the help topic "auditing". That may point you in the right direction.

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Mike

 

[iLinkTech]

If your printers are set up as network printers on a W2K or W2003 server (in an AD environment), the SYSTEM event log should have printer information in it, including the user, the document name, and what time it was printed.


Hope this helps...

 

[iLinkTech]

Forgot - there should be a banner page option on any network printer in a Windows domain - check out this article:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...g/productdoc/en/print_use_separator_pages.asp

 

[iLinkTech]

Sorry, more "brain flatulence" - the SYSTEM log to look at is on the server, not the local workstation, though it might also be there.