Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 15:22:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the
> > > correct one, apart from trial and error?
>
> > Now contact you highly paid sys admins to ask them to add a "Location"
> > field to whatever the server/printer is advertising.
>
> So... if your corporate network is not set up in the way that Brian
> expects, there is simply nothing you can do about it. You're just
> screwed, and must resort to trial and error to figure out where
> the printers are. Even though CUPS can magically contact the printers,
> it will refuse to tell you how it does that, because of some kind of
> policy decision.
It's an odd policy decision to pay someone to write IP addresses on
printers rather than the name(s) of the queue(s) that they serve.
It does look as if all the information that is published for/on these
printers is for the benefit of the support staff and not the users.
Cheers,
David.
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