Gary Winiger wrote:
>>>> 2) Are there any plans to enhance CUPS to distributed network printer
>>>> configuration via NIS? Or is there a replacement for this service
>>>> already present? (I guess this is what Bonjour is intended for?)
>>>>
>>> There are no plans for NIS. CUPS supports LDAP, DNS-SD, SLP, and CUPS
>>> Browse protocols for print queue advertisement/discovery. Since CUPS
>>> is the "de facto" standard print service on *nix these days, it's
>>> interoperable with other systems. Our name service support support
>>> isn't.
>>>
>> So one thing I'd like to see here, in order to eventually remove the LP
>> service altogether, is a set of tools or documents to help
>> administrators migrate from using NIS to other protocols.
>>
>
> Is something more than PSARC/2001/282 NIS to LDAP Transition Project
> (N2L) being requested?
>
> Gary..
>
If that does the trick, then I'm happy :-)
- Garrett
