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From: lyle@sjuphil.uucp (Wayne J. Lyle)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PC-NFS Printing - User name variations
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.004957.1105@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 7 Dec 89 00:49:57 GMT
Reply-To: lyle@sjuphil.UUCP (Wayne J. Lyle)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
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	Sharing printers has been really no problem for me to setup.  However
we have installed a postscript laser that I want to keep track of usage by
establishing printer account.  No problem I thought, looks ok and things are
being recorded for transactions from the PC's using PC-NFS.  However then I
began to notice a high number of entries for root and an occasional entry for
user.  I know from the traffic into the data center that the numbers for the
users should be significantly higher.  Then I noticed the names on the cover
sheets.  They denote that the user is root from that particular host.

	The first thing that came to mind is that it wasn't working out. Well
later I noticed a few people sent jobs to the printer that did have their
user names on the cover sheet and they were charged for the resource.  What I
would like to know is how does pc-nfs send the file to the system so that
sometimes it is owned by root and other times it is owned by the user logged
in from the PC level????  Is it random?


BTW: System setup: Host = Sun 4/390  SunOS 4.0.3
		   PC: Various IBM Compatible PC's running MS-DOS 3.31 &
		       PC-NFS 3.0.1 (WD800E)



Wayne 


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+ Wayne J. Lyle					  Systems / Networks Manager +
+ Saint Joseph's University			  Academic Computing	     +
+ UUCP:	lyle@sjuphil.sju.edu, {princeton,bpa}!sjuphil!lyle		     +
+ CSNET:lyle@sju.edu 				  PHONE:(215) 660-1524	     +
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+ Wayne J. Lyle					  Systems / Networks Manager +
+ Saint Joseph's University			  Academic Computing	     +
+ UUCP:	lyle@sjuphil.sju.edu, {princeton,bpa}!sjuphil!lyle		     +
+ CSNET:lyle@sju.edu 				  PHONE:(215) 660-1524	     +
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