On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:42:31AM +0100, Nelson, C.M. wrote:

> Today I have noticed for the firsts time that in
> the "Settings" family I have "do not scan printers" enabled (although
> printers continue to be scanned

Which revision of plugin #11933, dont_scan_printers.nasl are you using?
If it's not 1.3.1, you may want to update your plugins; an earlier
iteration had a logic error, as Doug Nordwall pointed out last week:

  http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2006-October/msg00013.html

> the "Settings" family I have "do not scan printers" enabled (although
> printers continue to be scanned - surely it is by scanning that they can
> be identified as printers anyway?). 

They are scanned only to a limited extent (eg, banners for telnet, ftp,
 http, snmp, etc) to allow Nessus to determine that the devices are, in
fact, printers.

George
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