[cups.general] Make Browsing on take care of allowed/notallowed users

[Michael Sweet]

On Sep 29, 2011, at 1:00 AM, poilou wrote:
> 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?

If you have a single server, just point the client at the server in the /etc/cups/client.conf file.

Long-term we will be depending on Bonjour (both multi-cast and traditional DNS lookups) and LDAP to dynamically provide a list of available printers to clients.

> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>> There is no option for this, and future versions of CUPS will no longer support CUPS browsing, sorry...
>> 
>> On Sep 28, 2011, at 8:10 AM, poilou wrote:
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>>> Hi to all cups users and dev.
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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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