User Management

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Also check out the User and Group Sync section of the PaperCut NG/MF Help Center which details setup and configuration for Active Directory, LDAP, Google Cloud, and other directory sources.

How-to Articles

• Applying user filters based on group membership
• Automatically generate Card/ID Numbers for users
• Best Practice when Migrating Domains
• Change how often users can generate their own card/ID number
• Creating PaperCut Administrators
• Custom User Sync Integration
• Deleting Users from PaperCut NG or PaperCut MF
• End-User Transfer Feature
• Group based restriction on printing
• Hiding the PaperCut Service Account from the login screen on macOS print servers
• How can I find a user by their card number and erase it?
• How do I merge Printers/Users/Databases in PaperCut?
• How do I self-associate a card with the secondary ID field?
• How to Automate Google Cloud Print Printer Sharing
• How to ignore a user in PaperCut
• How to quickly add or remove credit from users
• I have seen that PaperCut supports internal users. What about internal Groups?
• Ignoring disabled Active Directory users
• Importing a subset of domain users
• Importing User Office and Department from non-standard fields in Active Directory
• Importing User’s home folder from non-standard fields in Active Directory
• Importing users from multiple Active Directory domains
• Importing/Exporting Card Numbers / Identity Numbers
• Managing PaperCut MF/NG Shared Accounts and User Settings via IDM Integration
• Manually Overriding the Group List
• Merging two separate domains into one
• Multiple Card/ID Numbers for a user
• Multiple domain security configuration
• Normalizing usernames from printer usage
• Preparing to use UPN usernames with PaperCut when synching with the standard Azure AD sync method
• Print enablement & management in distributed working environments
• Re-apply initial user settings via server command
• Renaming domain groups
• Renaming user accounts
• Reset user counters back to zero
• Resetting an Internal Users Password
• Resetting the Admin Password
• Restricting Printing By Group with Exceptions
• Script for Time-Based Printer Access
• Setting the User Auto Generated ID Number Length
• Summary of options for Guest user management
• Syncing a Secondary Email Address from Active Directory
• Syncing against multiple Groups or Organizational Units
• Updating User Card Numbers Using SQL

Troubleshooting Articles

• LDAP: cannot find groups (users are imported successfully)

FAQ

• Exceeding the license limit (user count exceeded)
• PaperCut and Active Directory

Reference Articles

• Active Directory username length limitation
• Batch User Import/Update Example .tsv files
• Restricted vs Unrestricted users
• What are the implications of users belonging to multiple groups?
• What is the difference between user and shared accounts ?

Known Issues

End User Articles