The Optional Web Administration Add-On offers remote administration of PaperCut ChargeBack ac counts and users using a standard web browser.In addition, it can be used to browse recent print jobs printed on a printer or by a user.It's ideal for applications where remote access is required for simple account management.For ins tance, the company financial officer might need to add a new ex pense account for a new client, but does not have administrative privileges, or login access to the PaperCut primary print server. The company financial offic er can then use the web adminis tration console to add the account.

Changes to individual user credits can also be performed us ing the web administration module.

Note: The PaperCut Admin Console software offers more advanced management features. The web based administration option offers ease- of-use and has the advantage of not requiring the installation of additional software.It is ideal for the day-to-day user management tasks.For remote management of advanced features such as costs , filter rules and other features, consider accessing the PaperCut Administration Console using remote server access software such as VNC or Windows Terminal Server.

System Requirements for Web Administration

   Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)

   A standard web browser (IE 5+, Mozilla, or Firefox)

Installation

Installing the Web Tools Add-On is optional.PaperCut will func tion fully without the Web Tools, however all administration will have to be done using the main Administration Console.It is strongly recommended that you take the time to configure the web tools.

1.Install the Internet Server Software

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) with ASP extensions is required on the primary PaperCut server, and can be installed either before or after the installation of PaperCut.IIS with ASP is available with the NT Server Option Pack or comes as an optional component with Windows2000 Server/Pro and Windows 2003.

NOTE for Windows 2003: Windows 2003 Server does not run ASP pages by default, so

this must be enabled after installation.To do this, open Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Internet Information Server.Select the "Web Servic e Extens ion" node, and "Allow" the "Active Server Pages" ex tension.

2. Adding a Virtual Directory to IIS

You need to create a virtual directory for the PaperCut Web Tools.To do this:

   Open the IIS console (Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Internet Information Services)

   Right-click on the Web site you want to create the virtual directory under (the default is "Default Web Site")

   Enter the name of the virtual directory in the "Alias" field.E.g."PaperCut".Then press "Next"

   Select the directory where PaperCut Web tools are installed.i.e. C:\Program File\PaperCut\WebAdmin. Then press "Next".

   Ensure that the "Run scripts" option is enabled. Then press "Next".

   Pressthe "Finish" button

The PaperCut web tools require users to authenticate with IIS.To configure IIS to force user authentic ation, you need to deny anonymous access on the PaperCut virtual directory.To do this:

   Right-click the PaperCut v irtual directory in the IIS console and select properties

   Select the "Directory Security" tab

   Pressthe "Edit" button in the "Anonymous Access and Authentication Control" section

   Disable anonymous access and make sure "Integrated Windows Authentication" is enabled (see below)

3.Configure File Permissions

The PaperCut installer will set the file permission correctly for most organizations, so will not need to be modified.

If you want people in addition to the Administrators group to have access to admin pages you will need to modify the permissions. If you do not want to modify these permissionsyou can skip to point 5: Testing the Setup.

File permissions must be carefully configured so to allow only users with adequate permissions ac cess to ac count management functions.Log on as Adminis trator and configure the file permissions as follows:

Administration Pages

The following Administration pages should only be accessible to users who are allowed to perform user administration (e.g. Administrators, Admin staff, etc). Normal users should be allowed to access these pages otherwise they will be able to modify user credit, etc.

C:\Program Files\WebAdmin\Admin.asp

C:\Program Files\WebAdmin\UserList.asp

  1.Read and Execute (or Full Control) permissions to Administrators (or other administrative group)

  2.No privileges to any other normal users

All Other pages and files under C:\Program Files\PaperCut\WebAdmin

All other files should be readable by all users (administrators and your other users)

  1.Read and Execute permissions to Domain Users (or other group that your users belong to)

PaperCut Databases

The PaperCut databas es need to be readable and writable by all users.

C:\Program Files\PaperCut\Database\&

C:\Program Files\PaperCut\Database\pcuserdb.mdb

C:\Program Files\PaperCut\Logs\&

C:\Program Files\PaperCut\Logs\*.mdb

  1.Ensure all users have full control (i.e. Users or 'Domain Users' have full control)

4.Testing the setup

Open a web browser on the print server (or another computer on the network) and connect to http://PrintServerName/PaperCut/Admin.asp. Where PrintServerName is the network name as sociated with the print server running PaperCut.If requested, enter a username and password of a user with printing account administration access (as configured in step 3).The PaperCut Web Administration ¨C Welcome page should appear (refer to Figure 24).

We recommended that you try and access the page while logged on as a non-privileged user. Unprivileged users should be denied access to this page.If access is granted, check the permissions alloc ated to the Admin.asp and UserList.asp file in the WebAdmin directory.

Advanced Configuration & Customization

Often the options available in the Config.inc don't cover the full range of c ustomization required. Many organization may want to fully integrate the PaperCut web tools interface into an ex isting Intranet or portal website.PaperCut's web tools interface is developed using Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.System Administrators with HTML experience should quickly be able to modify the look-and-feel of the web tools pages.Most colors and fonts are controlled via the PaperCut.css file and the header.inc file controls the header and logo layout.PaperCut Software Pty. Ltd. is happy for customers to modify the pages and/or use any of the code for customization purposes.Please remember to take a backup copy of the pages asfuture PaperCut upgrades may overwrite the changes.

PaperCut Software Pty. Ltd. is also able to assist customers with custom page des igns ifrequired.