Xerox XCounter Page Accounting Support & Software User Guide

XCOUNTER FOR NOVELL USER REFERENCE MANUAL 

 

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User account balances are maintained using the Novell accounting feature. If this 
feature is to be used, then it must be enabled by using the NetWare SYSCON utility. 

Note: If accounting for tracking connect time or disk usage is enabled, and the 
account balances are not in currency units, then the user account balances will not 
appear to be consistent if XCounter is used. Please check to make sure none of 
these features are enabled on the file server before implementing XCounter. Netware 
creates the file \SYS\SYSTEM\NET$ACCT.DAT. This file contains binary records 
of all accounting transactions on the file server, as well as logins, etc. This file should 
be monitored and deleted periodically. 

Netware 4.x servers 

It is not necessary to install accounting, as NDS already has built-in account balance 
properties/attributes for users. If NetWare accounting for tracking connect time, or 
disk usage, and XCounter are enabled, and the account balances are not in currency 
units, the user account balances will not appear to be consistent. Please ensure none 
of these features are enabled on the file server before implementing XCounter in this 
fashion. 

The cost for each print job is defined in the queue's configuration. If money is being 
collected for printing, and the cost of each print job from a user's account balance is 
being deducted, then positive prices should be used. Negative prices should be used 
to keep a running total of print activity in user account balances. 

XManager can be used to modify user/group account balances and low balance 
limits. XManager can optionally keep records in XCOUNTER.LOG. 

No record will be kept of any accounting transactions in 
SYSCON/NETADMIN/NWADMIN.