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XCOUNTER FOR NT USER REFERENCE MANUAL 

Mar 2001 

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Note: All jobs submitted to printers that are monitored by the XCounter Printer 
Control service and port monitors must only be spooled to the NT printer host. 

Do not allow users to print directly from workstations to network printer addresses, or 
XCounter will not see those print jobs (unless XCounter services and monitors are 
installed on each workstation). Printers that are accessed in peer-to-peer modes by 
workstations using protocols such as AppleTalk, LPR, and DLC should be setup as 
follows: 

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Configure the printer for the peer-to-peer mode on the server 

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Setup sharing on the printer so users can spool jobs to the server's queue 

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Reconfigure workstations to use the server's shared printers instead of peer-to 
peer modes 

If required to keep track of print jobs from users who are logged on/authenticated to 
NT servers, it is not necessary to import or create XCounter database entries for 
them. XCounter automatically looks up user/names on a Primary Domain Controller 
or other server that contains user accounts. If XCounter is enforcing user account 
balances/quotas, then users who have had no printer activity are assumed to have an 
account balance of zero. 

For the tracking of printing from users sharing logons, see the section: Popup - 
Enabling printer accounting while using shared logon names. 

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When Macintosh users submit print jobs to Windows NT printers, the username 
typically shows up in parentheses, such as (username). XCounter automatically 
strips off the parentheses and processes the print job based upon the username 
inside them.