On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:41:12PM -0500, Brad Felmey wrote: > > No, it's a valid feature for those who choose to structure their network > printing to use it.
I would think. > By turning on browsing by default, what happens is that every single PC > using CUPS broadcast advertises on the network all the printers it has > set up to use. OK. I don't see a problem. > Every other PC picks up these broadcasts and adds them as > available printers. Oh no. Now that *is* a problem. The only machine that should broadcast printer availabilty is the machine that owns it. > If you're using direct printing (like my company > does), this means you have each and every machine advertising "Ricoh 551 > 4th floor", "Optra S 3rd floor QA", and so forth ad infinitum. Sounds like a wonderful feedback loop. :-) > Then, > when you go to print something, and choose a printer, and you end up > with a browse list of literally thousands of entries, even if you have > much fewer printers than that, because each machine is presenting the > available printers, which means you have the same ones over and over and > over in the browse list. I see. This sounds like bad design. Maybe somebody should give the CUPS folks a heads up about this issue. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
