From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop won't remote print
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:20:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910182120.49597.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910182106.18131.wonko@wonkology.org>
On Sunday 18 October 2009 21:06:18 Alex Schuster wrote:
> I do not know whether the client searches the local subnet for a server,
> or whether a server broadcasts its existence along the subnet, but it
> just works here.
>
It's done by SNMP usually. Other methods exist, such as zeroconf (avahi).
Which explains why printers "just appear"
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-18 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-18 17:09 [gentoo-user] New laptop won't remote print Grant
2009-10-18 17:59 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-10-18 18:39 ` Grant
2009-10-18 19:06 ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-18 19:20 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-10-18 19:25 ` Grant Edwards
2009-10-22 20:09 ` Grant
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