On 01/03/2011 12:17 PM, Holland, Stephen wrote: > Currently my school provides wireless access to some dorms. We do not > support wireless printers and I have been asked to provide a solution as > students want to use wireless printers in their dorm rooms. From my > perspective this would be a logistics nightmare as each student could > bring in their own printer which could be manufactured by a number of > different vendors. In addition different operating systems locate > printers using different means (Bonjour for example) and this would > further complicate the issue. I'm curious to know if other schools have > implemented such a solution and how successful the implementation has been.
We give them directions to an office supply store where they can buy a USB cable. Your instinct is correct - these are a nightmare to support in any sort of NAC/802.1x environment. -- Matt Gracie (716) 888-8378 Information Security Administrator grac...@canisius.edu Canisius College ITS Buffalo, NY http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.