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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by WirelessGigabit on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:00PM (#37474857)
ZeroConf actually works pretty well as long as everything is in the same range.
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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by breadwinner on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:11PM (#37474949)
Is that on a Mac? Windows doesn't seem to support it.
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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by sp332 on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:17PM (#37474989)
It's called "Bonjour" on Windows and Mac. Windows doesn't have support out of the box, but you can get it. https://learn.adafruit.com/bonjour-zeroconf-networking-for-w...
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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by ubercow13 on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:22PM (#37475453)
Windows uses mdns natively now. That article is 10 years old.
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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by Guvante on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:18PM (#37474994)
Did you change your router settings? It should all heal up with a simple broadcast packet.

It could be your router defaults to blocking broadcast packets related to wireless devices. (Either in or out)

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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by numpad0 on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:37PM (#37475586)
Range as in L2?
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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by WirelessGigabit on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @01:13AM (#37477125)
L3. ZeroConf is broadcast which doesn't go outside of your current IP's subnet.
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