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.
You didn't like my bus analogy, did you?
What makes you think that knowing a bus number and destination
provudes information for where it departs from?
What makes you think that knowing an IP address tells you where
any machine of any description is located?
Trial and error is not neeed. Just an IT department with basic
skills and the intention to help users would suffice.
--
Brian.
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