On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 02:43 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 08:04 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I suspect what you say is true since network printers would be picked > > up through cups browsing from the printer server. > > You'd hope unavailable remote printers would eventually be automatically > culled. You'd want some threshold, so that printers that went down for > half an hour, didn't disappear. Or the office printers you've specially > set options for, but aren't available at home, stay on the system, > albeit in a "currently unavailable" status. But anything that hadn't > been seen for days or weeks, and/or had no non-default options, could be > erased and left to be rediscovered, later on, if they ever became > available again. > In my experience if the print server is not distributing browsing packets the printers on that server disappear immediately. If the server is not there at all likewise. -- ======================================================================= Now there's a violent movie titled, "The Croquet Homicide," or "Murder With Mallets Aforethought." -- Shelby Friedman, WSJ. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
