Information Retrieval by Scanning the Network

Information Retrieval by Scanning the Network

If you use one of the network connections (remote LPD, SMB, remote CUPS, network printer with IPP), you have an option for scanning the net. Be careful when applying this; in some environments network scanning is considered a hostile and harmful act!

In the case of SMB, KDEPrint will use the Samba utilities nmblookup and smbclient (which need to be installed for this to work) to retrieve the information it presents in a tree structure.

In the case of IPP (Port 631) and TCP Network/AppSocket (Port 9100) KDEPrint will try to open the port and in case of success send an ipp-get-printer-attribute request to the printer. For newer HP® printers the latter usually works, because they support both AppSocket and IPP.

Some printers or manufacturers use other port numbers for direct TCP/IP printing. You may need to look up which one to use. The Settings button in the dialog lets you configure your scan, including IP addresses, ports and timeout to use.

Once again: be careful not to be misunderstood as an intruder to your network, if you use the scanning technique.

In the KDEPrint wizard, you can enter parameters to have the
wizard scan parts of your network.
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