| 32 | When the user clicks (or double-clicks, depending on the client operating |
| 33 | system) on the icon, a table is displayed showing how many pages the |
| 34 | user has printed on each printer, as well as if he can still print or not, |
| 35 | and if is PyKota account is limited by a number of credits, the number |
| 36 | of credits remaining in his account is displayed. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | INSTALLATION : |
| 39 | -------------- |
| 40 | |
| 41 | 1 - On a web server : |
| 42 | |
| 43 | The first thing to do is to configure a web server to serve |
| 44 | PyKota's dumpykota.cgi CGI script. The best place to do so |
| 45 | is on the print server itself, but for performance reasons |
| 46 | you may prefer installing it elsewhere. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | When installing, you have to ensure that the dumpykota.cgi |
| 49 | script will be able to read PyKota's configuration and to |
| 50 | access to PyKota's database, whatever it is, as a PyKota |
| 51 | administrator. Please refer to PyKota's documentaton for |
| 52 | details on how to do this. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | You can protect access to this CGI script with a username |
| 55 | and password if you want. Please refer to your web server's |
| 56 | documentation for details on how to do this. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | 2 - On each client : |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Execute (double-click) on PyKotIcon's installation program, |
| 61 | and the software will install itself onto the local hard disk. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | The installation procedure will ask you for the full URL to |
| 64 | dumpykota.cgi which should be installed and working on a |
| 65 | web server, accessible from the current computer. For example |
| 66 | enter : |
| 67 | |
| 68 | http://printserver.example.com/cgi-bin/dumpykota.cgi |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Then the insallation procedure will ask you to enter an optional |
| 71 | username and password, in the case the access to dumpykota.cgi |
| 72 | is protected. Just leave the fields blank if access is unrestricted, |
| 73 | else type in the correct username and password. |
| 74 | |
| 75 | 3 - You can now execute the pykoticon software. A good place to put |
| 76 | it under MS Windows is in the Startup folder, or in a netlogon |
| 77 | script. Under GNU/Linux and similar system, you can put a |
| 78 | command line to pykoticon in your ~/.Xsession file or configure |
| 79 | your desktop environment to automatically start it when opening |
| 80 | the session. |
| 81 | |