How to hide a printer on the cups server

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Feb 9 05:27:36 PST 2006


Franz-Werner Gergen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using cups 1.1.20 and wan't to hide some printers (make it not browsable in the network). Of course, I'm able to restrict the access to the localhost (using Allow/Deny directives inside a Location /printers/name section) but the printer is seen by cups clients using my cups server.
> 
> How can I restrict browsing to the localhost for some printers?

You can't in CUPS 1.1.x, but CUPS 1.2 supports it.

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