Windows – How To Monitor Printserver Queues

I'm doing something similar on a Windows 2003-based print server for a Customer with no problems. We've got a supplier who submits print jobs from a HP/UX machine to our W2K3 server, and we send them on to Zebra label printers. I've got the W2K3 machine exporting LPR queues (using the "Print Servces for Unix" LPR server) and have configured the particular queue the supplier uses with a "Generic / Text-only" driver in Windows.

AFAIK, the jobs they're submitting are being passed straight through to the Zebra without any reformatting being performed by the Windows spooler. (Put it this way: I've gotten no complaints and labels are printing alright...)

To avoid messing with cupsd.conf (and risking stompage), you can add users to the _lpadmin group:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a fred _lpadmin

or just add everyone:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -t group -a everyone _lpadmin

BTW, membership in _lpadmin grants both the ability to manage queues, and also configure printer settings; if you just want to grant queue management, I believe you can do that by adding people to _lpoperator instead.

As for avoiding A4, my first thought is to edit the printer's ppd file to remove all mention of the cursed PageSize -- but this is not something I know anything about...