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

[Michael Sweet]

Sorry, no.

On Sep 29, 2011, at 7:17 AM, poilou wrote:

> 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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