On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:38 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > 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 I meant this one > I think that a. should be taken care of by CUPS browsing (2.7.2 Remote > Discovery). I doubt it; discovery is nice for small networks but for bigger companies... not so, same for printers which don't by nature do discoverable things; it also can take a long time and a lot of network traffic. Some places turn discovery off on a sysadmin level (eg they filter it on the router) as a result. While.. it wouldn't be hard to get the settings from a server, especially when it's easy to do for both the admins and the user.
