limit printers visibility

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Sep 28 06:46:01 PDT 2006


Pippo Lacoca wrote:
> Hi
> We are about to build a big researching facility that will be
> composed of various buildings. We'd like to limit the printers
> everyone can install in Apple Print Center to at least the ones of
> his building, or even better of his floor. Every floor can be
> identified with a precise subnet and we'd like to have only one cups
> server for ease of management. Is there a simple way to accomplish
> this task?

No, you won't be able to get this level of granularity from a single
CUPS server at this time - there is an open RFE to add support for
selective advertisement and another to support BrowseAllow/Deny for
location values, however none of that is available today or will be
available in CUPS 1.3.

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