>> can's mdns/avahi help with discovery? it'd be a shame to have to >> manually configure a server address or name. > > DNS-SD is the Right Answer (which is not exactly the same thing as > mdns). But getting a standard "one school server, and a classroom of > XOs" solution in place for 9.1 using a standard name ("printer", say) > would be a good first step; we can handle autodiscovery (via CUPs or > something else) for 9.2.
The current cups dns-sd is written in perl. It apparently works pretty well in Fedora but I know OLPC remove perl due to space. Apparently there is general mainline (Fedora and cups) for a rewrite in something else. Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel