[cups.general] hiding unwanted printers

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> In our institute the "typical user workstation" is a Linux CUPS client of
> a single CUPS server (running CUPS 1.2.7 under SuSE Linux). The public
> printers are network printers (usually HP or Dell) with a hostname like
> lp0 to lp8 and a static IP address.
>
> Now occasionally it appears that some moron connects his own machine to
> the LAN (in DHCP or with a static IP address) and misconfigures it to
> announce to be a CUPS server.
>
> When this happens all users accessing the CUPS server via the web
> interface on port 631, as well as applications like firefox or openoffice
> show an excessively long list of printers. Sometimes the same "official"
> network printers duplicated as "lpn at x.y.z.t", sometimes a locally attached
> printer of the moron host.
>
> Instead of chasing the moron each time, would it be possible to arrange
> that the Only and One CUPS server shows to the clients ONLY a predefined
> list of printers ?

Why not just set the machines up without cups running, and have

/etc/cups/client.conf:

ServerName cupsserver.my.domain

That gets the client only talking to your server which I'm assuming will have
browsing disabled.

jh

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