[cups.general] precisions about browsing
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Thu Feb 12 09:25:46 PST 2009
Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> ...
> It does however need to be pollable by users machines. Quite curiously,
> in order to make it works for MacOsX clients, they have to specify
> browsing protocols, and the server needs to have a corresponding
> 'BrowseAllow' directive. Those two directives are not needed at all for
> Linux clients, which is a first issue.
The default browsing configuration on Mac OS X is different than most
Linux distros.
> Moreover, as soon as 'BrowseAllow'policy is in use, printers shared by
> those users integrate server list, which is unwanted behaviour, and the
> second issue.
Well, that's what browsing does for you. If you don't want to see all
of the printers, don't use browsing!
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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