[Desktop_printing] CUPS 1.2 will have snmp printer discovery backand :-)

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi Michael,

Could you possibly send the man page and the web help page
as attachments to this list?

I'd like to understand exactly how the SNMP discovery backend
works and which SNMP MIB object(s) are inspected.

I wrote the Xerox and Sharp corporate standards for order
of inspection of various SNMP MIB objects during printer
discovery (prior to the standard PWG Port Monitor MIB)
and there are some subtleties across different vendors.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: desktop_printing-bounces at lists.osdl.org
> [mailto:desktop_printing-bounces at lists.osdl.org]On Behalf Of Michael
> Sweet
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:21 AM
> To: Till Kamppeter
> Cc: desktop_printing at lists.osdl.org; kpfeifle at danka.de
> Subject: Re: [Desktop_printing] CUPS 1.2 will have snmp printer
> discovery backand :-)
> 
> 
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > ...
> > If you consider the web interface not secure enough, do not 
> remove or
> > disable it, add "Encryption Required" to the /admin and /admin/conf
> > locations in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and the user is automatically lead
> > into https mode before he enters the root password of his 
> print server.
> 
> This is actually the default in CUPS 1.2 - the DefaultEncryption
> setting kicks in whenever authentication is required, so unless you
> explicitly disable it there is no way to authenticate in 1.2 without
> encryption...
> 
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com
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