[cups.general] BrowsePoll show unpublished printers (bug?)

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Jun 25 08:05:49 PDT 2009


This is STR #3147, which is fixed in the upcoming 1.3.11 release.

On Jun 25, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Brian Kroth wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm running cups 1.3.8 from Debian Lenny on a print server on a  
> separate
> subnet than a collection of client that are running the same  
> version, so
> I've setup BrowsePoll to have the clients collect the set of printers
> from the print server.  The problem is that printers I've setup as
> unpublished still appear on the clients.  Does anyone know if is  
> this a
> bug?  Can it be fixed or worked around?
>
> I've tried things like requiring specific addresses or authentication
> for the unpublished printers so the clients can't actually print to
> them, but they still show up and print jobs sent to them just silently
> fail.
>
> The whole reason I'm doing this is that these printers are part of a
> load balancing class and so I want users to print to the class and not
> the individual printers.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Brian
>
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer

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