[jcifs] Shared printersy

[eglass1 at attbi.com]

> > 
> 	It's going to be just as much of a headache for the application side. 
> There's
> 	no infrastructure in Java for setting/getting printer attributes as near 
> as I can
> 	tell.  For example I have an HP LaserJet 6L.
> 
> 	http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_6L
> 
> 	There would need to be a library that could retrieve the PPD information 
> like
> 	that managed by linuxprinting.org above but even that data is 
> non-windows
> 	oriented. It's just a massive job to the point where unless you're doing
> 	something like what Steve is doing it doesn't even make sense.
> 
> 	If the user change driver properties or install new drivers (like a 
> plain
> 	PostScript driver) on the print server then there are more possabilities
> 	because you can just print raw. But it's still limited and would 
> ultimately be
> 	something that most people would play with only to end up asking
> 	questions here and being told that it doesn't do what they want 
> (although I
> 	suppose that can be curbed with proper documentation).
> 
> 	Printers are highly variable complicated machines.
> 
> 	Mike
> 

True.  I guess this "smells" more useful than it actually is ;).

Eric