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by colglazier.sa 1 view

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This is probably embarrassingly simple to one who knows... I have a color printer hooked up to an 2000 Professional pc. I need to track the number of pages printed by each user on the network. I have an NT 4.0 manual that describes setting up a printer auditing policy, but I can;t figure it out fot 2000. When I go to the printer properties I can find where I set the auditng for each user. But I then get a message saying auditing is not turned on. I found the Local Security Settings | Local Polices area, but have no idea which to choose or if I am even in the correct area to activiate policies. This machine is on an NT 4.0 server network, so how do I know if domain level policy settings are defined (it says they will override local policy settings if they are defined at the domain level). How do I turn on the printer auditing capabilities? Will the resulting log that is written be in the system log/

Thank you,

Scott.

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by curacao_dejavu

Scott,
I can give you some directions.

To enable local security auditing:

Log on to Windows 2000 with an account that has Administrator rights.

Click Start, point to settings, and then click Control Panel.

Double-click Administrative Tools.

Double-click Local Security Policy to start the Local Security Settings snap-in in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

Double-click Local Policies to expand it, and then double-click Audit Policy.

In the right pane, double-click the policy you want to enable or disable.

Click the Success and/or Fail check box(es) as appropriate.

NOTE: If you are participating in a domain, and a domain-level policy is defined, domain-level settings override the local policy settings.

For additional information, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type audit, and then double-click the topic you want to view.

Also check the MS KB Article ID: Q300549HOW TO: Enable and Apply Windows Security Auditing which ispretty detailed and selfexplaining.

then turn on the printer auditing.
You ahve to ask your network administrator if auditing is turned on and what the settings are that he has defined.

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Leopold

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