[cups-devel] CUPS_PRINTER_REMOTE for automatically added printers on Linux

[Helge Blischke]

> Am 28.09.2017 um 12:30 schrieb Mario Sanchez Prada <mario at endlessm.com>:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your reply, that clarifies a few things. To begin
> with, I didn't know that cups-browsed was the piece responsible for
> automatically finding the shared printers, but I did a quick
> experiment by uninstalling the cups-browsed package from my system and
> the shared printers were no longer being automatically added, even
> though I could add them later on manually by explicitly searching for
> printers in the local network.
> 
> That said, based on your reply I'm not sure that removing cups-browsed
> from the system is the right solution here either, and I see
> cups-browsed installed in my other Linux machine where I don't have
> this issue so I still feel like I'm missing something here.
> 
> Would you mind elaborating a bit more on what you mean by "stop using
> cups-browsed by default" and "let cupsd/libcups manage the printers
> that come and go in such environments"?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Mario
> 

Read the manual page for 
cups-browsed.conf
There are some directives which control which kind of printers are added under which conditions.

Helge