On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:29:28AM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> Somehow administering the printer is not
> considered a facet of infrastructure sysadminship, it's instead like a
> dirty floor: you don't wash it yourself if someone spilled their Double
> Hot Chocolate mug on it, you call the ja
On 16.10.2018 11:29, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> I find it amazing how often there is no one who knows anything> technical
> about the printer, and I do not mean the list of printing
or> shared filesystem protocols it supports or if it can take
Postscript/PDF> files directly, but not even it's IP
On 16/10/18 at 03:31, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com):
>
>> "Go to 'Settings', 'Network' and 'Search the local network', when you
>> see the icon with the printer double click on it and accept the download
>> of the driver and install it if you don't have i
Le 15/10/2018 à 20:33, Rowland Penny a écrit :
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:12:41 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr):
This is fine if you always work in the same place. During my
professional life, I used to travel to various labs and found it
convenient to automatically fi
Le 15/10/2018 à 20:12, Rick Moen a écrit :
We noticed, if the network
became saturated, the stacks became unusable in this order:
1. AppleTalk (Apple)
2. NetBEUI (Microsoft)
3. IPX/SPX (Novell Netware)
The fourth stack, TCP/IP, was never observed to become unusable (though
of course a sev
Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com):
> "Go to 'Settings', 'Network' and 'Search the local network', when you
> see the icon with the printer double click on it and accept the download
> of the driver and install it if you don't have it".
>
> This is the answer I get 99% of th
On 15/10/18 at 20:12, Rick Moen wrote:
[...]
> Or, if there's someone technical handy, I lazily ask 'Hey, how would I
> print directly to this printer?'
"Go to 'Settings', 'Network' and 'Search the local network', when you
see the icon with the printer double click on it and accept the dow
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:12:41 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr):
>
> > This is fine if you always work in the same place. During my
> > professional life, I used to travel to various labs and found it
> > convenient to automatically find, in the cups menu of my laptop,
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr):
> This is fine if you always work in the same place. During my
> professional life, I used to travel to various labs and found it
> convenient to automatically find, in the cups menu of my laptop, a
> list of the local printers. And to always have the list up t
Le 14/10/2018 à 22:42, Rick Moen a écrit :
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr):
Avahi daemon is the Linux dnssd service. dnssd is a protocol
for service discovery on LAN (formerly known as Apple "Bonjour").
The essential utility for me is to allow to discover CUPS servers on
the LAN, becau
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