Make Browsing on take care of allowed/notallowed users

[poilou]

Thanks for breaking my hope ;).

If there will be no longer browse support in future versions of cups, is there another way to "mount" automatically the printers of a user at startup?

Thanks in advance.

> There is no option for this, and future versions of CUPS will no longer support CUPS browsing, sorry...
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> On Sep 28, 2011, at 8:10 AM, poilou wrote:
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> > Hi to all cups users and dev.
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> > I'm pleased to configure my first cups print server.
> > I put a printer on it, set the sharing to "on" :
> >         x Share printers connected to this system
> >         x Allow printing from the Internet
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> > I put my clients to listen for server broadcast, and the printer appear magically on the clients hosts after a few seconds.
> >
> > But here's my question :
> > The printer's option "allowed user" is set to prevent some user to print.
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> > I'd like to hide the printer for users which are not allowed to print on it.
> >
> > But even if the user cannot use it because the server ask for a username and a password, the printer is shown to the user.
> >
> > This could make a very long list of printer for only one printable.
> >
> > Is there an option that I ignore or an developpement request?
> >
> > Thanks.
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> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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