Xerox XCounter Page Accounting Support & Software User Guide

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Mar 2001 
XCOUNTER FOR NT USER REFERENCE MANUAL 
 
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Deleting Paused Jobs 
Paused print jobs can be deleted after a specified number of minutes. A value of zero 
(0) disables this feature. This setting only applies to printers using XCounter port 
monitors. 
Numerical Format 
The numerical format determines how costs and balances are displayed and 
reported. This option works together with the printer media prices configuration to 
allow either charging by the page or by currency.   
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Pages -One accounting unit = One page. Use this option to allocate printing 
quotas in number of pages. 
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Currency -Accounting is kept in terms of local currency. Use this to option to 
allocate printing quotas in terms of currency. 
The type and format of the local currency is determined from the local Windows 
settings. 
User Information 
XCounter can be configured to obtain network user information dynamically from 
either the Primary Domain Controller or any other server that contains the user 
information. This information is used to associate network users with the XCounter 
account/balance database. This database stores the users ID and account balances. 
The options to obtain this information are as follows: 
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Domains -Select Primary Domain Controller. 
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Workgroups -Select the NT Server where user accounts are located. 
Data Server 
The XCounter Data Server service manages all of XCounter’s printer accounting 
data. This server stores the transaction log file, account balance and popup client 
code databases. The XCounter Data Server can run on any NT/2000 workstation or 
server, even if it is not an XCounter printer host.  
When selected the Data Server option will display a list of domains from which a data 
server may be selected.   
Each XCounter printer host has a Data Server configuration option that can be 
pointed to a particular data server - this allows all of the printing data to be kept in one 
central location for easy access.