Defining Printers

[Jerry Weiss]

Is there any way to configure a printer that is assigned its IP via DHCP? It seems that HPDPS and LP bind to the IP address and not the hostname, is there any way around this?

[Tom Jackson]

Jerry:

All of our printers and servers have static IP addresses. We only DHCP user desktops.

Tom

[Paul Sperry]

printers are usually assigned static IPs.
If the DHCP lease is the default 8 days
I'd just use the DHCP IP. I doubt it will change since printers are usually not turned off for over 8 days.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Jerry,

IF the DHCP server reports the assignment to the DNS server (better yet that the DHCP & DNS servers are one and the same) AND you do lookups via DNS AND you define *only* the hostname to the spooler AND you give sufficient time for the entry to propagate to all the DNS servers (if your network is large) THEN it should work fine.
As you can see there are a lot of qualifiers there, but if you meet them all then I believe it should work.

I'd prefer a static IP. Just have the DHCP admin remove it (them) from the pool.

Rgds,
Jeff