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>I have a bit of a problem... In our building we have 5 HP Laserjet 5si /mx's
>and only one zone (appletalk).  We are only allowed one zone per building
>via ethernet.  The chooser sees all of these printers but the macs should
>only be printing to one.  Unfortunately they all have the same name so it is
>hard to distinguish them.  The printers are smart enough to detect
>themselves by order of when they are turned on, so depending on when your
>printer gets turned on you may be printing to HP Laserjet 5si 1 or HP
>Laserjet 5si 5, or any number in between.  Right now the only option is to
>go to the printer, print out a configuration page and see what it called
>itself to get the correct name.  Then you have to go to each mac and set up
>the chooser.  I suppose I can leave the printer on all the time and the name
>won't change, but I would like another solution.  Laser Writer Lock out
>won't work because if I lock out a specific name, a different printer may
>have that name the very next day.  I need either spooling software or an
>extenstion that can detect printers by their LAN HW address or ip address.
>Any suggestions?
>
>Aaron Brender
>Computer Operations Supervisor
>Learning Resources Department
>Texas A&M University
>notamab@acs.tamu.edu
>409-845-2316
>
Check the diskettes that came with the printers.  Sometimes the printers
will come with utilitties wher you can rename the printer, giving it  a
unique name.  This would aleviate your problem.


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* Dave Holmack                                                               *
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