[cups.general] Re: Restricting browsable printers

[John Morton]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:42, Heath Kehoe wrote:

> > I'd like to be able to configure each of the branch servers to only
> > expose one printer to the central polling server, however it looks as
> > though the browsing code is uninterested in using access control to
> > printers as a means of deciding if some other server should see a given
> > printer at all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> 
> You could use SLP instead for CUPS browsing, assuming your network supports multicast traffic.  You'd have to run SLP daemons on each CUPS server.  OpenSLP works great for this, and it'll work with its default configuration (though you'll want to make at least one server a DA with "net.slp.isDA = true" in slp.conf.

The routers might be up to multicast traffic; if so I'll definitely look
into it. Thanks.

John