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

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Tue Nov 16 07:50:33 PST 2004


Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:33:16AM -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> > 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
>
I checked in printers.conf. This new printer isn't present in the list. So as you said, I guess this is a remote printer which is there because my CUPS server see a another CUPS server (on a machine whose IP I know). Can I prevent my CUPS server from adding remote queue?

Thanks

Rems




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