PapurCut Sync of Users

[garethEds]

Good morning - Does anyone know if a user sync on PaperCut to an on-site AD runs for all OUs under the main one? So if I sync to 'OU>Students' will anything under that sync : 'OU>Students>2026', 'OU>Students>2025' and so on? At the moment we seem to be choosing all of our OUs manually - but just choosing the top ones would be great.

[BKGarry]

I luckily have 2 groups, one for all Students and one for all staff, I have these selected as the option to import the users from (plus other department groups for reports) this may be a better methos than OU for you to sync

[garethEds]

3 minutes ago, BKGarry said:

I luckily have 2 groups, one for all Students and one for all staff, I have these selected as the option to import the users from (plus other department groups for reports) this may be a better methos than OU for you to sync

 

Ahh you mean our security groups?

[Boredguy]

A Sync will search everything on your OU, but typically only creates users for AD Groups you have selected that should be imported into Papercut.

 

I have our Students, Teaching Staff and Non-Teaching staff AD groups as the main ones, but also selected all the departmental AD Groups so that they can be associated with "Accounts" for departmental billing purpose

Edited 3 hours ago by Boredguy

[jthompson]

We do it using security groups also. We have a whole set of "papercut_xxxx" groups for managing the users, accounts and privileges, etc. of PaperCut.

[BKGarry]

40 minutes ago, garethEds said:

 

Ahh you mean our security groups?

 Yes I do mean the security groups rather than OU, Which @Boredguy seems to have said first

[Sephiroth]

We use both OUs and groups for different user types.

 

I can confirm that OU searching is recursive as that's our primary use case. Staff and student OUs are selected in PaperCut, but "Staff/Teaching", "Staff/Support", "Students/26Entry", etc are all populated.