On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:48:02AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > what I'd like to see is a mechanism similar to automatic http proxy > discovery; eg allow for a "site configuration", which you pull down > automatic (say if dhcp points you at it) if you are in a certain > building at work, but not when you are at home (because then you want to > pull down another printer list from your local firewall box ;) I can see two things you might mean: a. site policy tells clients about printers in the print room b. site policy tells clients what settings to use for any local printers that get attached, on a model by model basis (e.g. for HP printer with duplexer, use long-edge duplexing) I think that a. should be taken care of by CUPS browsing (2.7.2 Remote Discovery). I chose interpretation b. when replying to Nicolas Mailhot in "Persistent Settings (was ...)". I don't know if that's what you meant, or if it's a good idea, or how to implement it if it is. :-) Tim. */
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