From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MzbKF-0002ab-Pi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:21:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57D2FE07EA; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDD6E07EA for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so2913864ewy.34 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:21:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=C1sGMaPBautxeH3NPB3T0zy2fR4Whecsw/96tXotbcY=; b=ToMbG0ZwF03UOIug4FK91snznBtuTnwd1j3kXZVKZPgB7AXzruUlRG7MDe4IqETBEV GkfsqbqVv/KWPKiHULZKJkrBK+6fwj161akI6TNL8Wq6cNVGFFI3YG5gi9jNbH6JkWE4 QXwB4KRayQUVqMV2y7D+1yNkQiFjoElIb+02c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=VSuliUjtg6KT6841iqYzaWlqjM0QPx13EqGqVxJFBYvhxz2FtQvSVVPSy/gJ73d+QB Ufj7Q9IMpxoVapSstMiBLKlx8C0+ltVgawGE0rUZKVp1mnKzyN2riGfmEPsZAbAntM59 Rtlfo/fLzN/DiNPJI9OnWeAM4j8bYkC9pkYqU= Received: by 10.210.155.2 with SMTP id c2mr3909918ebe.23.1255893713492; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm7271060eyg.10.2009.10.18.12.21.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:21:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <49bf44f10910181009j3264a702u9635209f8528d4ed@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10910181139k39e81656qcc11b709a9bbde65@mail.gmail.com> <200910182106.18131.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200910182106.18131.wonko@wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910182120.49597.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4e59cdb3-ac4d-4abd-b4e0-9d7fea6d6f7e X-Archives-Hash: 2197a9054c365b060c8b3bcc060f82a8 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