[cups.general] New Printer that I did not installed

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Tue Nov 16 07:37:28 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:33:16AM -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem (may be not with CUPS).
> I am using CUPS with a Mandrake 9.1. Using the CUPS web interface, 
> I recently found a new printer configure on my machine. The problem 
> is that I do not have installed this printer myself. Besides, I am 
> supposed to be the only one who has the root password and I didn't 
> use lppasswd and I didn't modify cupsd.conf: 

probably your CUPS server sees another CUPS server and automatically
makes the remote queue available.

check in printers.conf, if the printer is there, someone (you?) added it,
if not, the printer is remote

you can also use the lpstat command

hth

Jerome Alet





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