Re: Grand Unified Printing

[Alberto Ruiz <arc gulic org>]

El lun, 25-10-2004 a las 22:38 -0400, Jody Goldberg escribió:

> > 
> > Do you think it might be possible to autodetect SMB printers and add
> > them to the list?  At least ones with no password?
>  
> Somewhat.  Even things with passwords are possible with the keyring.
> However, there are limits.  Port scans for ipp/appletalk printers on
> a net seems like they should require explicit user intervention.
> 
> Another worry here would be barraging users with too many printers.
> A corporate desktop that started listing every public smb share in
> it's workgroup would be overkill in alot of situations.
> 

In corporate desktops, there are WINS servers for that propose, so, when
we have WINS server assigned, is better to do the query to it instead of
broadcast the network.

> 
> Shall we meet on irc on Thurs To do some planning ?
> /me creates a #gnome-print, lets see if it's useful

I'll be there, greetings,
Alberto Ruiz