How to deny samba printing on certain queues?

Kyle Schmitt kschmitt at tootsie-roll.com
Wed Nov 11 08:56:27 PST 2009


> Samba should only show printers that are actually shared by cupsd, so
> if you just want to prevent printing from any remote host you can
> toggle the "printer-is-shared" setting, either from the web interface
> or with lpadmin:
>
>      lpadmin -p printer -o printer-is-shared=true/false

That's the problem though: I don't want samba to be able to print to those queues, but other remote servers need to print to them.

Some of the servers are sending the print jobs through IPP, and others LPD.  I can't be guaranteed to get user or group information from those jobs, right?

--Kyle




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