HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

38 Chapter1

Introducing HP Distributed Print Service

Conﬁguring HPDPS to Meet the Needs of Your Users

Figure 1-5 Printer Security

You can also set up your logical printer so that it does not check for

authorization, making the logical printer available to all users. Because

users who use LP spooler print commands are not typically logged into

DCE, the printers to which they send their requests must not require

authorization. See Chapter 8 , “Managing DCE Security for HPDPS,” for

further information.

Authorizing Access to Printer Functions

In the DCE Extended Environment, you might need to give various user

groups access to the same printer device or set of printer devices, but you

might want to restrict some users from using certain printer capabilities.

For example, you might want to keep some users from printing on a

media other than letter-sized paper, or perhaps you want to limit the

number of copies of a job they can print.

You could set up two logical printers and associate them with the same

queue and physical printer or printers. As shown in Figure 1-6,

“Authorizing Access to Printer Functions at the Logical Printer,”,

representing an hourglass conﬁguration, one logical printer could

restrict the usage to one copy on letter-sized paper and the other logical

printer could be for users who have authorization to use the unrestricted

logical printer.