> Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> > My dilemma now is this: The network is DHCP with two-week IP
address
> > leases. The printers have IP addresses, but don't seem to have
> > hostnames. This means that every two weeks I'll have to change the
> > configuration for the printers in CUPS. That's . . . annoying.
Does
> > anyone have some enlightening information about how I could solve
this
> > little issue? I'd really appreciate it.
> >
>
> Ahem. My apologies. That wasn't as clear as it should have been.
>
> The fact that there aren't any hostnames available for these printers
> means that I have to refer to them by IP address in CUPS
configuration,
> and that is why I'd have to change the CUPS configuration every two
> weeks (when the IP addresses change).
>
> --
> Chad
Sounds as if you are using dynamic addressing for printers/print
servers.
I am not sure why a printer's IP should ever change.
The best thing I ever did for printing at home was to get an inkjet
marketed as 'network-capable' (even though there was no other
interface than a parallel port) and a JetDirect 170. I gave the
JetDirect
a static IP on my home /24 LAN and I can print to it from six different
machines. both Win 98/2k/XP and Linux (RH and SuSE). The printer
is a DeskJet 895. I even printed to it from a NetWare 5 server.
I always knew the philosophy as being that servers had static IP and
userland were assigned from the DHCP pool, which were all IP that
were not in the static pool. In linux, print using tcp to port 9100. The
one trick is that in XP you select from the "local" print option, not
the "network" option which presumes printers attached to machines.
RH is the easiest to setup as the tcp:9100 option is supplied natively.
The print server device is specified by its IP.
- Bob
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