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Password Protection Inquiry

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Does anyone know of a password program which can be used to password protect a spacific printer on a Network?
The Network has a Linux server while the PC's are running on various versions of Windows
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You will have to do it via the Windows security model, probably. Look that up along with how to configure it in SAMBA.
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Use the AD to create a object for the printers.

Assign a group to have the print rights to those printers.

Add usesrs to the group.

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Use the AD to create a object for the printers.

Assign a group to have the print rights to those printers.

Add usesrs to the group.
Cheers. Right now that is the method were going to use. Not exactly Ideal, but it'll have to make do.
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