Bug#173803: ITP: WvPrint -- Printing System for Linux that makes installing printers truly plug and play
>> Patrick Patterson <ppatters@nit.ca> writes:
> How about if we make it as easy as installing WvPrint, and putting
> two lines in the client config file, that point to a "master" server,
> and each change won't even need sync'ing up.
That's what I do with CUPS. When I said I needed to rsync two files, I
meant "in order to add a new client". One file says which machine is
the server and the other states which printer is the default one for
that client (people get noisy if they have to walk two floors upstairs
to get their print jobs). No ammount of wizardry will be able to
always pick the correct default.
> How about just plug the printer in either to a computer running
> WvPrint, or into the network with a Jet Direct card, and it will be
> set up ;)
That sounds like polling, and I dislike that kind of stuff. Do Jet
Direct cards broadcast their presence when the printer is turned on?
> > Oh, that's why the Wv prefix rang a bell... the one thing I hate about
> > WvDial is that it was either hard or impossible to integrate it with
> > the rest of the system.
> BTW - what do you mean by "hard to integrate with the rest of the
> system" ??
It's been years since the last time I looked at WvDial, but AFAIR it
didn't use, for example, /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ (or pon and poff for that
matter). "The system" as in "Debian".
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