Xatrix Security

[Xcellerator]

no doing:

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taskkill /IM RMPrinterWrapper.exe

will work, but Status Reporter I think doesn't work though...

Also try:

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taskkill /IM client32.exe
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
taskkill /IM StatusReporter.exe

Make sure you put the /IM or /F in the command, do:

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taskkill /?

to get a list of the sytax's

[PDN]

Thanks for that, I shall try it providing I can sort out my history project. Anyway, today as I was on the computers, myconnect reported I had unlimited print credits - I thought I had manged to defeat the credit system! Turns out I was wrong, the technicians did something foolish and now the whole school has unlimited print credits. At least for today.

[Xcellerator]

yet another piece of proof to show the stupidity of admins...

[ICT Tech]

LOL - unlimited credits for everyone!!! Idiots

Anyways, if you kill the RM Printer Services you will loose connection to the Database which contains all the Printing Information.
This (in theory) should stop printing all together!! Although as fair as I can remember this happened to us before (not caused by a Student) but everyone could still print, RM Status Reporter just said "No Connection to Database".

So it may work, although the odds are stacked against you!!

Give it ago and find out though, it should be fun to see!!

[muto]

Not only do we have unlimited credits at my school, but the cost of printing is 0 :>

[ICT Tech]

Not only do we have unlimited credits at my school, but the cost of printing is 0 :>

Thats is absolutely . . .

I don't know how to explain that!!
Shocking . . . dunno!

[spoilsport]

Printer credits probably uses a SQL Database.
If thats so, stopping the process could either stop printing all together since it can't check or it would just let you print.

I'd say it wasn't the latter since my school doesn't use printer credits and in statue reporter it always say 'Cannot connect to database'

It does. It runs on an SQL 2000 MSDE instance called MSSQL$RMAUDPRNCREDITS. Killing the Printer Wrapper service on the workstation (which you won't be able to do as it runs as a service) will bin your connection to the database. It will not stop credits being deducted as they are managed by the WinPrint(audit) print processor that's attached to the port of each monitored printer.

[Xcellerator]

So, hack the printer?