On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 3:20 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > On 12/10/22 01:06, Tim via users wrote: > > Tim: > >>> Are you supposed to remember which epson printer is which without any > >>> clues? Are they both going to get the same name? Will they self- > >>> modify one of their names? Will they always be the same ones in the > >>> same order? I despise things that make me play guessing games. > > > > Samuel Sieb: > >> You can set a description for the printer that it will broadcast in the > >> mdns advertisement packets. CUPS will show that when you go to print. > > > > Yes, required manual intervention. But what will it do if you don't? > > I think they usually have the MAC address in the name somewhere. > But regardless, what do you expect to happen? It's still better than > plugging in a printer and having to figure out what IP address it > happened to pick up. If you plugged in two printers without mdns, how > are you going to tell which one is which?
Each printer gets a unique hostname. Then, you print using the hostname. It does not matter which IP address the machine gets. I guess the sharp edge in that design is, DHCP server must register entries in DNS. That's a common thing to do in Active Directory environments. Maybe not so common in the home router world. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
