[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #6715: Network Printing Transport Layer
- From: "ithamar" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:35:48 -0000
#6715: Network Printing Transport Layer
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Reporter: stargatefan | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: | Version: R1/alpha2
Servers/net_server | Keywords: Printing network printer print
Resolution: | Has a Patch: 0
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Platform: All |
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Comment (by ithamar):
Replying to [comment:5 stargatefan]:
> would it be possiable to write a utility to find the printer and set
the IP adress automatically ? I look at new users who are not terriably
network or computer savy and I imagine they nmight get fustrated. For
instance my printer ip is 192.168.2.2 and it has a page if you goto the
adress that displays the printer info. I wonder if we could take advantage
of the html code on the printer dialog page to identify printers and have
the setup utility select the proper IP adress after scanning the IP blocks
say from 192.168.0.0-.254.254 that shoud make it stone simple for the
average home user.
There is something like that for any printers which are shared through
CUPS, as I had documentation on how CUPS broadcasts the available
printers. Now, for real networked printers I don't know if there's
anything. I might have a networked printer available soon, so I could
verify if it does broadcast anything.
If anybody has any hints on identifying these printers (maybe possible
through zeroconf or some such), I would love to hear how, and would
volunteer to implement it in the transport addon, besides the CUPS support
that is implemented currently.
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