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Printer naming
In the Monash Novell environment, printers and other network-connected
devices should be named in a standard fashion. The following standard
conventions apply for printers:
The Novell printer name and the DNS printer name are seperate
entities, Novell printers are configured to print to DNS names. In
order to avoid confusion, it is strongly recommended that the
same name is used in both environments.
NOTE: Please use only lower-case letters to
avoid potential problems with other ITS systems.
NOTE: If a DNS name is changed prior to consultation
with ITS, then the Novell printer will stop working.
Student printers
p-<campus><building>-<room>-<distinguishing letter>
Staff printers
The naming conventions for staff printers are currently under
evaluation. ITS suggest the following for staff printer naming:
p-<campus><building>-<room>-[printer model-]<distinguishing letter>
Notes
p |
Identifies a printer, to distinguish printer objects from other
objects in the directory. Other prefixes apply for other classes of
object, e.g. w for Workstations. |
<campus> |
A 2-letter abbreviation be, ca, cl, co, gi, jo, pe, ph, su,
etc. |
<building> |
Building number or letter. |
<room> |
The normal campus specific notation, without punctuation (7
characters max.) |
[printer model] |
This is an optional one word field that can be specified in order to avoid ambiguity amongst multiple printers in the one location. (eg hp4500cn |
<distinguishing letter> |
One character identifier, e.g. a, b, c,... |
Note that there is a University wide building numbering scheme, but
the numbers are not displayed on all campuses, and do not conform to
common usage.
Justification for the above is based on the observation that the user
must be able to find the physical printer to retrieve their output,
and thus the printer location is obviously important.
Example
The third printer in room G59, Building 28 of Clayton campus would
be abbreviated to p-cl28-g59-c.
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