On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > There are some uncountable number of printers hooked to the > network at work. Somehow, fedora 10 seems to have discovered > one of them all by itself, and I'm just kind of wondering > how the devil it did that. > > More mysterious is the device URI that shows up in the > printer properties: > > ipp://labpc2:631/printers/shemp > > I'm suspecting labpc2 is a linux box that happens to have > shemp configured as a printer and I can find it because it > is on the same subnet as my PC (all the printers are actually > on a different subnet), so I'm not going directly to the > printer, but to a different linux box and then to the printer. > > Is that a good theory? :-). > Yes. If its shared out then you will be able to see it by default I believe. You can turn that off in the printer dialog. If memory serves 631 is the standard port for cups. I can't recall if printer sharing is enabled by default but if it is they may not even realize its shared out. You could send them a print job asking if they realize its shared out or you might just masquerade as gremlin. -- "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -Albert Einstein -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
