Make Browsing on take care of allowed/notallowedusers

[poilou]

Hello,

That's ok for the client.conf and the Browsing. It works. But Is there really no possibility to hide a printer for a user that is not allowed to print on it?

Bye

> 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:
> >>
> >>> 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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