[cups.general] hiding unwanted printers

[henri]

The CUPS client.conf - client configuration file supports an option  
called 'ServerName'.

 From : http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-client-conf.html

> ServerName
> Examples
>
> ServerName foo.bar.com
> ServerName 11.22.33.44
> ServerName foo.bar.com:8631

That will probably do what you need. Keep in mind that you will also  
need to disable browsing on the clients.

For more advanced setup options there are many possibilities such as  
PrinterSetup.

PrinterSetup, provides a text file based approach to the managment of   
print servers or clients CUPS queues. With printersetup you may easily  
manage multiple print servers. PrinterSetup also has features for  
centralizing your print queue management. It is designed to work with  
filesystem tools such as radmind.

Related Links :
	PrinterSetup : http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/printersetup
	Radmind : http://www.rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

Hope this helps.


>
> On 12/09/2008, at 7:00 A 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 ?
>
> M, cups at easysw.com 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 ?
>>
>