How to restrict which printers are shared using IPP, CUPS v1.1.23

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Tue Apr 4 12:10:58 PDT 2006


Michael, I just purchased you book online.  What section would cover this topic?  I will need to set this up tomorrow, Wednesday.

Thank you for your time.

Rick

> rickpo at monkeydo.us wrote:
> > I have a centralized UNIX server that all printers are defined on.  I
> > also have thin clients that act as POS (Point of Sale) terminals to
> > run the application on.  On these POS thin clients, all printer show
> > up befault.  The problem is that if someone accidentially sends a
> > print job to a receipt printer that is all PostScript, it is not very
> > pretty.  I would like to define which printers actually get shared
> > over the network with other IPP clients so that the receipt printers
> > do not show up.  Is this possible with CUPS version 1.1.23?  Can this
> > be done using an ACL?
>
> You can't control the advertising of specific queues in 1.1.x, but
> you can add a <Location /printers/name> section to your cupsd.conf
> to prevent other systems from successfully printing, e.g.:
>
>      <Location /printers/name>
>      Order allow,deny
>      Allow localhost
>      </Location>
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com





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