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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