Johannes Meixner wrote:
Do you really mean it as follows:
"In the corporate world, it's quite common to allow employees to add/delete printers in the corporate network which are used by all employees in the corporate network."
Or do you probably mean it as follows:
"In the corporate world with a Windows-like printing environment, it's quite common to allow employees to add/delete printers on their own workstations so that the employee can submit print jobs from his own workstation to the corporate print server."
Could you provide some more details about the printing environment when you worked at IBM and also in the insurance company. In particular: Was there a CUPS server as corporate print server?
I assume in both cases it was a Windows-like printing environment. In this case printers must be usually set up on each individual client system so that the client system can submit print jobs with printer-specific data to the corporate print server.
In both cases, I was referring to adding a printer to a user's computer, not the network. I was not involved in print servers at either company. I was just able to use any printer that was available on the network. At IBM, many printers were connected to mainframe computers or OS/2 servers. At the insurance company, they had Windows servers. Either way, it was a simple matter for a user to add whatever available printer they wanted. With the insurance company computer, I was also able to connect to WiFi. In fact, the computer even included a "Hot Spot Enabler" utility to make it possible to connect to a public WiFi hot spot, as otherwise the system is so locked down that it's not possible to connect to a hot spot that requires using a browser to connect. Connecting to my home WiFi with that computer simply required providing the WPA password. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org