Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> But I think we could do better than to force users to pick printers by
> mac address or ip address.
Out of the box, my new HP printer had the name "HP Color Laserjet
3700 (BDB692)", my existing mono one said "HP Laserjet 2100", and
the Lexmark had "LXK0DD9EE".
I have not (and probably will never) bother to set any SNMP properties
for them because the interface to do so is relatively cumbersome,
so the printers' knowledge of their environment won't get changeed.
If I was in a typical small office, chances are that we would have
purchased many of these at the same time (preferred vendor...),
leading to the situation whereby the only way of telling them
apart is via the MAC address/serial number. Even if I was the
sysadmin, I'd still need help discovering them the first time...
Don't make things harder by making it impossible to do the
logical-to-physical mapping....
-John
