Stopping browse listening but not broadcast

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon May 14 16:24:20 PDT 2007


Paul Raines wrote:
> On my printer server, I don't want cups on it getting printers for its list from anywhere else but what is in printers.conf.  But I want it broadcasting those local printers so clients can see them.
> 
> The comment in cupsd.conf for Browsing says:
> 
> 
> # Browsing: whether or not to broadcast and/or listen for CUPS printer
> # information on the network.  Enabled by default.
> 
> But seems to only take On or Off.
> 
> How do I turn of it listening for CUPS printers but still keep it broadcasting the local defined printers?

You could use:

     BrowseRemoteProtocols none

or:

     BrowseDeny all

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