System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing

ProcedureHow to Enable the Network Device Discovery Service

By default, the OpenSolaris Print Manager automatically discovers and configures USB printers that are directly connected to your system. Print Manager also has the ability to discover and configure printers that are on a network after the network device discovery service has been enabled.


Note –

Note that in the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release, this service cannot be enabled from the desktop until you install the SUNWSmmgr package. If you attempt to enable the service before installing this package, the system reverts to maintenance state. For detailed instructions, go to http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/relnotes/200811/x86/.


  1. From the Main Menubar, select:

    System-> Administration-> Services

    The Services settings window is displayed.

  2. To initiate the device discovery add-on module, select the Hardware Abstraction Layer network-attached printer discovery (network/device-discovery/printers:snmp) option.

  3. Save your changes.

    To disable auto-discovery of devices, deselect this option.