tor, 03.02.2005 kl. 17.42 skrev Remco Poelstra: > Hi, > > Let me first introduce myself, sine you people probably never heard > about me :). > I'm a student at the Eindhoven University of Technology. With a team of > 4 students we are responsible for Linux support at the faculty of > Electrical Engineering. > > Tim Waugh asked me to help thinking about a new printing solution, as a > reply on a mail of me on the config list. > I read the posts here about that subject and I would like to share my > opinion on this matter: > > First I would like to state that there won't be any solution if CUPS > doesn't improve. > > The problem that eggcups tries to adress (authentication) isn't solved > if there is a chain of CUPS servers involved. If CUPS can't communicate > back, then the user still can't authenticate. So CUPS should implement a > 2-way IPP protocol. > Then eggcups can be reduced to listening to HAL messages in order to > display the print queue and pop up authentication dialogs. By not > implementing a full CUPS server, it has less system resource usage, > which is a good thing I think. > Second if CUPS supports signed browse packets, than we have an 'easy' > solution of identifying fake printers on a large network. > > For the configuration part: gnome-cups-manager does quite a nice job on > this. > Than we only need some decend tool to configure the server itself. > > Just my 2 cents, > > Remco Poelstra Another part which would make it much easier to configure for smaller networks (ie. those without a local DNS server), and avoids disasters if hosts named "localhost" shares printers - do a test on a recived hostname immediatly after it is recived, check that it does look up the correct IP - or an IP at all. If it does not resolve - use IP adress directly instead. Kyrre
