From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 08:07:44 PDT
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:27:00PM +0200, Roman Pixell wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Robert Benschop wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't really followed the LPR printer driver development closely,
> > > but maybe that might be of help here?
> >
> > well, since my printer is a USB printer, it still doesnt have an IP
> > address. thats what i hoped to solve with an airport base station,
> > since they can hook up USB printers to the network.
>
> but what does the base station DO with the printer? there has to be some
> kind of mechanism that the basestation needs to use to alert the network
> that there's a printer there.
MacOS X advertises printers thru ipp (Internet Printing Protocol or
something like this), the successor of lpr. Nevertheless, the printers are
available via lpr/lpd with CUPS-lpd bridge.
Apple Airport Extreme Base Stations advertise printers thru Rendezvous.
They are lpr/lpd printers, if I remember properly. Support for automatic
discovery of these was planned in LPR Driver at some point. I just have to
prioritize my time and I admit this currently has a low priority. All the
source code is there, so if someone wants to code it, feel free to do so.
In the meanwhile, you need to enter the IP or the domain name of the
printer server. For a base station, it's something like 10.0.1.1 or
whatever your Macs/Newtons/whatever have as their router/gateway setting
(it may also begin with 192.168).
Paul
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