I'm curious to know if you have any M$ servers on the network ????? look at the printer shares on local machines if they exist it seems whats happening is a loopback situation CUPS i've had the same situation the solution was to disable printer sharing with M$ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:56 PM Subject: [Cooker] THAT FUCKING CUPS BROWSING...
> It's 2000 times I have to search for computers running Mandrake & CUPS > because they FUCK_MY_PRINT_SERVER (a Mandrake CUPS, obviously). > It's 2000 times I have to go somewhere to disable the FUCKING default > "BROWSING --> Enable" > Can someone explain why this default cannot be turned off? It happens very > very VERY often that "other" CUPS-server browse the lan's printer and capture > a printer. I got no way to recover the situation without find the user (I got > 600 users and 4 c IP classes so please try to imagine...) go there and > disable browsing, and restarting the server. It all could be avoided if you > turn browsing off by default. Why not then? > > Thanks, Claudio > > -- > Claudio Panichi > System/Network Admin at Dept. of Physics > "Tor Vergata" University and INFN - Sec. "Roma II" > Remote System is: LINUX Mandrake 8.2 (Cooker) > LA STABILITÀ È PER I DEBOLI! =;p >
