Lars Tunkrans wrote:
> > Its more diffucult to see how this would work in a workstation environment . > You want to get a printer assigned dependent on which workstation you logged > in on > and not dependeing on you username - which you can get from NIS or LDAP. > It will need som kind of central repository where a list will be kept > > Workstation name - closeset printer > > Maybe you should be thinking of extending Sun Desktop Manager- APOC for > this. > This is where greater use of the LDAP nameservice/configuration database would come into play .... Workstation, printers, domains, locations, etc., would be configured in LDAP, then when a user logged in on workstation x some startup service would look up the nearest printer for the user's requirements (eg. A4, colour, duplex, stapling) and set that as the current session default. Simple! We tried to do that on SCO's UnixWare but the project got ditched (back in 1999/2000) when UnixWare was passed onto Coldara. Solaris printing currently only uses LDAP as a name service though. Paul -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Solaris Software Engineer
