On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:13, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:05, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 09:29, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > Glad you had success. Cups made a lot more sense to me once I realized > > > how to add ppd files to cups to describe printers. The interesting > > > thing about CUPS is that it has no built-in driver system. Instead it > > > relies of foomatic, gimp-print, or any other filtering system. The PPD > > > file then describes the way cups should interact with the printer and > > > all the special options for it. It's very nice. Although I haven't > > > made this work yet for me, apparently cups should be able to go out and > > > search for other cups servers around it and gain access to those > > > printers. That would make setting up network printing a snap. If > > > anyone knows how to get that working, I'd be interested in hearing how. > > > > The one thing that bugs me about CUPS is the (lack of) security right > > out of the box. Admin from anywhere over http is evil, so is letting > > anyone print to a printer without authentication--and they don't even > > have to scan to find you, CUPS announces the "service"! > > Yeah, it's about the same level of security as LPR or jetdirect. I'm > sure this will be remedied some time soon.
I dont' know much about jetdirect. LPR may allow anyone to print, but it _doesn't_ advertise it and doesn't allow clear text admin over http. I liked CUPS, but decided to go with LPRng because I didn't feel like taking to time to lock down CUPS. Anyway, it was too much of a pain going between my work CUPS and home CUPS setup. Advertising was supposed to make it easier, but would occasionally break. As for admining, if you want web based configuration use Webmin and make yourself a certificate. Apache is much easier to lock down--and more appropriate in my opinion. Maybe Rendevous and Zeroconf will improve things. I don't know. Just my $.02 -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */ #define TRUE 1 /* and this is the Light */ -- mailto.c ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
