Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Norm Jacobs p??e v ?t 29. 09. 2009 v 13:51 -0500:
>
>> Garrett D'Amore 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.
>>
>
> NIS is not Solaris specific feature and fully supported naming service
> with no EOL plans. Why should admins mantain another naming just for
> printing?
>
NIS is not Solaris specific, but our printers.conf.byname NIS map is.
The name service support in CUPS is more dynamic and actually
requires less admin work than NIS does for printing under Solaris.
-Norm
