Danek Duvall wrote:
> If you can uniquely identify by serial number in some large percentage of
> the printers out there, that's probably good enough -- I bet people are
> more likely to recognize a printer by IP address than MAC address, if they
> need to get down to it.
The printers found automagically by my intel-mac show their MAC
address, though this may be more due to it being in the printer's
default name property (lexmark, hp...)
In a managed env like Sun's, it is still useful/desirable to have
network autodiscovery:
The NIS maps have all 5,000 printers in them,
I drop into a remote office and need to print,
network discovery shows me the 3 printers that
are somehow "near" me, making it rather
intuitive which ones to use...
-John
