Newbe Q: Remote printing with dynamic IPs

[Sorin Schwimmer]

Hi All,

I would like to be able to share printers under Linux, in LANs. I am very new to CUPS and not sure how to configure it.

All the addresses in my LAN are in 192.168.1.*. The router, 192.168.1.1 provides the role of DHCP server. There is
always a computer running at 192.168.1.99, and, in certain circumstances, one at 192.168.1.98. Apart of these ones,
everything else has a dynamic IP.

Printers are attached to some computers; mostly parallel printers, some USB.

All the computers that need to print or provide printing services run cupsd.

I would like to print on a remote printer, based on its name at server identification, or based on its class, decided
on a case-by-case basis. Also, I need to do it from my Python programmmes, rather than a shell prompt.

Examples that I saw on internet seems to be based on a static IP configuration. Can I accomplish what I described
in my environment? How?

Thanks for any pointers,
Sorin Schwimmer