[17] in athena10
Re: Printing and Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Jared Dominguez)
Sun Dec 23 22:00:48 2007
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:00:32 -0500
From: Daniel Jared Dominguez <danjared@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
Message-ID: <20071224030032.GU18186@how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64L.0712232121330.9498@coset.mit.edu>
> > * The best user experience might come from configuring the routers
> > to advertise a subnet-specific list of printers over multicast DNS
> > (or broadcast SNMP). That would require help from NIST and
> > presumably depends on what our router equipment supports.
> > Printers specified this way would show up automatically on stock
> > Ubuntu and OSX machines (I believe) in addition to Athena
> > machines.
>
> Would this mean that you couldn't (easily) print to machines on a "far
> away" subnet?
>
> -Tim Abbott
No, it's possible. See Wide-Area Bonjour (not sure what the non-Apple
name is).
--Jared
--
Daniel Jared Dominguez
email/jabber/sip: danjared@mit.edu
pots phone: 617.368.0509
sip phone: 617.324.9059
