[cups.general] Can I stop CUPS from automatically adding remote printers?

Silvio Ferreira Mendes mendes.silvio at ig.com.br
Thu May 8 06:19:04 PDT 2008


Hello, What CUPS version are you using ?

Did you tried to disable option on Administration page called (Show printers
shared by other system) ?



2008/5/7, Mark London <mrl at psfc.mit.edu>:
>
> Under RHEL4, CUPS crashes when someone with a mac powerbook puts their
> computer on the network (which has printer sharing on) and then takes it
> off.  He uses the powerbook at home, where he needs printer sharing
> enabled.  We have no need to have printers found automatically.  I have all
> our needed printers defined manually.  Can I turn off or block this
> feature?  Thanks. - Mark
>
> I [07/May/2008:12:43:16 -0400] Added remote printer "
> Canon_MP800 at 198.125.180.58"...
> I [07/May/2008:13:43:26 -0400] Remote destination "
> Canon_MP800 at 198.125.179.158" has timed out; deleting it...
> I [07/May/2008:13:43:26 -0400] Remote destination "
> Canon_MP800 at 198.125.180.58" has timed out; deleting it...
> I [07/May/2008:13:43:26 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
>
> CUPSD is dead after the above happens.
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