[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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