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

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Tue Nov 16 08:09:06 PST 2004


Look for the "BorowseAllow", "BrowseDeny", and "BrowseOrder" entries in 
the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. There you can tell which remote servers you 
want to see.

    Till


Anonymous wrote:
> 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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