John Plocher wrote:
> Danek Duvall wrote:
>> in our environment, would all 5000
>> printers show up, or some subset of those?
>
>
> I assume that, like today, if the user has a ~/.printers file,
> its "all:" entry will be used. If this is done naively, it could
> completely hide any auto-discovered printers...
>
> I'm a bit worried about the "out of the box" use-case; the usability
> of the system seems to be directly tied to this being on, yet network
> secure-by-default means that it probably should be off...
>
The SWAN's 5000 printers that you are referring to are not physical
printers, but queues "advertised" in the network name services. These
queues are what you interact with when you print from the command line
or desktop application. These queues are a software representation of a
physical device out on the network. In the SWAN there are often at
least two queues in the network name service per physical device. This
is largely so that you could access features like the duplexers on the
printers. (though that really isn't necessary) This case does not
address advertisement or discovery of these queues. This case proposes
to discover physical printers sitting out on the network so that queues
can be created for them. I/We will be putting forth a separate case to
deal with print queue advertisement/discovery in a more ad hoc manner so
that we don't need to have 5000 print queue network maps and their
associated problems.
-Norm
