Automatic Installation of Printers

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 20.12.2004 kl. 05.07 skrev Phil Schaffner:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 20:50 -0500, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> > On Friday 17 December 2004 05:47 pm, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > > fre, 17.12.2004 kl. 21.06 skrev Rodolfo J. Paiz:
> > > > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:48 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > > > CUPS is almost wilfully difficult to configure.
> 
> Thats putting it mildly.
> 
> ...
> >       I was the one that originally posted this message.  I went to my web 
> > browser and typed in "Localhost:631", and saw that print jobs were still in 
> > the queue and the errors were "Unable to look up host "XXXXX- unknown host".  
> > As I previously mentioned, I have a local LAN and can connect to the internet 
> > from all of the hosts but am having difficulty in seeing the other nodes on 
> > the network when it comes to printing - that is, when I try to print 
> > remotely.  When I go the the printing manager, it shows that it can see the 
> > printer on the remote computer. I can sucessfully ping all of the hosts on 
> > the LAN, however.  All five machines have Fedora Core 3 installed on them.  
> > How can I correct this problem?  I have a wireless router with four ethernet 
> > ports and the printer is an Epson Stylus C80 on one of the desktops.  How do 
> > I get the computers to "find" the host on which the printer resides?  Any 
> > help would be greatly appreciated.  
> 
> I have a similar setup on a 192.168.1.x network behind a cable modem and
> router.  Using static IP addresses, rather than allowing the router to
> assign them via DHCP, and making entries for all the machines
> in /etc/hosts works for me.

Yup. Personaly i use DNSMASQ...

And i personally mean that cups should *save* the broadcasted IP and use
that. And then maybe use the dns-name as a "hide" for the user...