Only way I can think to do this is using bluetooth for proximity printing, like how the followme feature works in asterisk and on misterhouse. I'm surprised there isn't an available open source alternative for this. (Google doesn't show much)
http://www.ringdale.com/FollowMe/ lopaka Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only thing that I can find that comes close is "Printer Location Tracking" in AD, but that doesn't really do what you want to do. There's no automatic way of having it print to the "nearest" printer, since physical distance is not a factor in IP Networks. Tharin Olsen wrote: > Hey guys, just began a new project this week and I thought I'd try and pick > the brain of the collective. I'm going to be helping out a small charter > school in my town and need to get most of their IT needs in order and very > quickly. They received some generous grants and bought lots of desktops and > laptops and what not but it has not been rolled out in an organized fashion > yet. No domain, active directory, group policies, antivirus protection, web > filtering, etc. As usual I come into the picture after all or most of this > money has been spent and the equipment has already been purchased. ::sigh:: > > One interesting problem is that the teachers each have their own laptop and > they go from classroom to classroom. The students stay put. I informed the > head of the faculty that I will need to install the drivers and what not for > the network printers onto each of the teachers laptops so that the teachers > can start printing. Since the teachers move around they won't be printing to > the same printer all the time, they will need to print to the one that is > physically closer to them. I figured I would just install the printers and > name them based on their physical location. When a teacher would need to > print something, they would choose the appropriate printer from their printer > list first then hit the print button. Simple, yes? Well they think this might > be too complicated for their teachers. They want to hit print and > automagically have the computer route the print job to the nearest printer > instead. I have no idea how to do this.. well I suppose one could > have something that sensed which wireless access point their notebook was > connected to then based on that route it to the nearby printer but I still > wouldnt know how to do that... > > So have any of gurus on here done something like this? Or should I tell them > to suck it up and learn how choose a printer from the six that are available? > :) > > -Tharin Olsen > >
