On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 23:24 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 18:30 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > >> A NEW PRINTER ADMINISTRATION TOOL > >> ================================= > > > > > > 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 ;) > > > > Yeah, getting off topic, this would be nice to have. But maybe not in > our short printing time frame. > > [ I've always wanted to have a dhcp hint to find a local public > directory server that exposes all these services. ] it could be dhcp.. it could be network manager where you set a printer settings thing per location profile. But bigger companies will really need this, browsing sucks for them.
