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- SLP is frequently used for locating printers and supported by printing systems such as CUPS.
- SLP is often found in LAN-enabled printers, so that they are discoverable out of the box. Some client print drivers can use this for printer discovery.
- ACN, a protocol being developed for entertainment control, uses SLP to find different devices such as dimmers and intelligent lights.
- Mac OS and Mac OS X up to version 10.1 used SLP to locate file shares and other services. However, features introduced with Mac OS X (version 10.2 onwards) use Zeroconf.
- Novell NetWare clients in a pure IP environment use SLP to locate servers.
- SUSE Linux supports SLP for a variety of services since version 9.1.
- Sun microsystems supports SLPv1 and SLPv2 including SA, UA and DA functionality.
- The Distributed Management Task Force has standardized discovery of WBEM Services via SLP.
- The Storage Networking Industry Association has mandated the use of SLP for services discovery in the Storage Management Initiative - Specification.
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