On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:30, Adam Augustine wrote: > 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. > > 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.
This is a function of Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) in the case of WinXP and CUPS in the case of MacOS X. UPnP was disabled by default in SP1, and may have even been disabled in all versions of Professional Edition. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
