>> One of the points I made on the "Luxury" side however was >> that Win XP and MacOS X both automatically map printers they >> discover being shared locally on the network. In fact, there >> is no way to turn this behavior off in MacOS X (10.2.x, >> at least I couldn't find it easily), so even if you don't >> want a printer shared, it will do it anyway and other MacOS >> X machines will automatically map it. I have had similar >> problems with the automapping in XP, but there is an option to >> turn it off. > > The reason this "feature" is available in OS X is because > it's just how CUPS works by default. Even on linux, CUPS > should automatically find all other CUPS servers on the subnet > (broadcast domain). It's a handy feature. I'm sure in OS X > there is a way to delete printers you don't want to see, as > there is in Fedora Core. FC1 shows you all the printers it > detects on all the servers on your subnet and lets you mark > which ones you don't want to see. > > Now, having this autodetection work in linux automatically has > caused me grief sometimes. And for reaching across subnets > (either in OS X or linux), you can use the BrowsePoll directive > in the conf file to grab foreign servers. This is something > that should be in the UI.
Having CUPS automatically find all other CUPS servers on the subnet is nice, but it would be helpful if there were a UI feature to disable sharing of a particular printer. (Note -- I'm NOT looking for a way to delete the printer from the list on the client side. I want to make it so that the server never advertises it in the first place.) Is there a way to do that? ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
