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. Michael > -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
