On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:30, Adam Augustine wrote: > Interesting. > > <snip>
> One of the points I made on the "Luxury" side however was that Win XP > and MacOS X both automatically map printers they discover being shared > locally on the network. In fact, there is no way to turn this behavior > off in MacOS X (10.2.x, at least I couldn't find it easily), so even if > you don't want a printer shared, it will do it anyway and other MacOS X > machines will automatically map it. I have had similar problems with the > automapping in XP, but there is an option to turn it off. The reason this "feature" is available in OS X is because it's just how CUPS works by default. Even on linux, CUPS should automatically find all other CUPS servers on the subnet (broadcast domain). It's a handy feature. I'm sure in OS X there is a way to delete printers you don't want to see, as there is in Fedora Core. FC1 shows you all the printers it detects on all the servers on your subnet and lets you mark which ones you don't want to see. Now, having this autodetection work in linux automatically has caused me grief sometimes. And for reaching across subnets (either in OS X or linux), you can use the BrowsePoll directive in the conf file to grab foreign servers. This is something that should be in the UI. Michael > > I can't explain why it didn't automatically work for your father, but my > suspicion is that the systems were set up initially in some way to > prevent it. > > Adam Augustine > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
