In Novell's "on the server" implementation we are not supporting
hrDeviceID.
However, in NDPS we did create a new object (attribute) that contains
the plug-and-play device ID. This is different in syntax from the
hrDeviceID (that one is an OID, this one is a an OCTET STRING).
This new object helps us to know what the device is for auto driver
download. If the printer can't tell us, we have the administrator pick from
a more human easy to read set of names and then we associate the
correct p-n-p device id with that instance of the printer. I would make a
suggestion that we add this kind of object as well. I can look up the
specifics of the syntax, but it is some form of string with keywords like
"mfr=xxxx;mod=yyyyy;...."
Any thoughts on this idea?
Scott I.
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Scott A. Isaacson
Print Services Consulting Engineer
Novell Inc., 122 E 1700 S, Provo, UT 84606
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