[cups.general] Turn off browsing input on server?

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Wed Nov 23 23:27:51 PST 2005


Hello,

On Nov 23 23:59 Euan Troup wrote (shortened):
> Can you set up a server so that it broadcasts browse messages
> but doesn't respond to them. For example if someone plugs a laptop
> into my nework can their preconfigured printer broadcasts be ignored?

Either use BrowseAllow and BrowseDeny or alternatively to drop
all unwanted Browsing packages on a CUPS server you can use
BrowseTimeout 0
This doesn't mean unlimited timeout but really a timeout of 0,
i.e. the cupsd forgets each broadcasted queue immediately.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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