What if there was some kind of "chanel" system - i.e. you could join the "physics department" chanel, and only printers shared to this channel, would be seen. fre, 07.01.2005 kl. 16.10 skrev Jeff Spaleta: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:28:18 -0500, gslink <gslink@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is fine but searching for and publishing printers that > > just have a lan address is wrong. On a large lan this could take hours > > and result in a long printer listing. > > > And your suggestion to fix this is? > Are you suggesting that auto-detection not be done? > Are you suggesting that listing of auto-detected printers not be done? > > Network detection has to be done at some point to compile a list of > available printers so there is no getting around the issue of it > taking a long time to get the printers available on the network > without a centralized listing to communicate to. > > I'm much more interested in preventing a default long list of > available network printers. > But to do that there must be a way in the ui to hide and to unhide > individual ques in the browsable list. I would also love to be able > to see the ip address of device where the que is being browsed from, > and I would love to be able to 'hide' all ques from specific ip > addresses. > > In a large network I can not rely on the Description string that shows > up in the s-c-printer listing to be correct, its just a fact of life > on a big network. If i could see the ip address in the listing I could > at least track down the devices location that is broadcasting and > inform IT about its misconfigured cups ques and make some progress > either getting the que removed or its Description corrrected. > > Right now... sitting on a large network with my fc2 or fc3 machine... > my cups listing is a wasteland of auto-detected cups ques from linux > machines in offices with locally attached printers with Descriptions > like 'location unknown' and que names like 'printer' and 'printer1'. > Intermixed with listings from an IT department controlled cups system > that I actually want to interact with. I typically need to use 3 > printers on the network, a fast black and white, a color phaser and a > plotter. The black and white is the default.. and the default works > just fine. But negotiating the 300+ list of printers every time i want > to print to the plotter is an annoyance, especially when the list > isn't static and i can't assume the plotter i want is going to show up > in relatively the same place bracketted by the same list neighbors. > > In a better world i would be able to hide cups servers and individual > ques that I don't want to see on the client computer I control in my > office. In a perfect world there would be a way in the ui to seperate > a listing of 'available' printers from the printers i have selected > already to be usable on my client. Hidden printers would be listed in > the very long 'available' list while printers I have selected are in > the default list shown in s-c-printer and the appliction print > dialogs. Thus preventing me from having to see a list of 300+ printers > on the network unless I want to select a new printer to use from the > 'available' list. In my perfect world. > my s-c-printer list and my printing dialog list would by default show > exactly 3 printers, the printers i use. If i need to use a 4th > printer. i'd hop over to the available list and select it to be > usable. > > -jef