Disable printer discovery

Sun Apr 15 11:10:46 PDT 2012

I forgot it again: CUPS 1.4.3

> In the web interface when I click "Add Printer" it says "Looking for printers", then takes a moment and then shows me a list of discovered network printers.
>
> I know the printer URIs of my printers and I'd like to skip this step and go directly to the URI box or at least to the backend selection. I guess I have to disable the printer discovery, but I don't know how to do that. I already set
> Browsing Off
> BrowseRemoteProtocols none
> in my cupsd.conf.
>
> Here's an excerpt from the log of what's it doing in that moment:
>
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:09 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "beh"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:09 +0700] [cups-deviced] PID 12038 (beh) exited with no errors.
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:09 +0700] [cups-deviced] PID 12030 (serial) exited with no errors.
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.20.1"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.15"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.16"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.2"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.20"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.251"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.31"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.32"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.33"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.34"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.37"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [CGI] Flushed attributes...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:11 +0700] [cups-deviced] Found device "socket://10.10.6.6"...
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:13 +0700] [cups-deviced] PID 12032 (snmp) exited with no errors.
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:13 +0700] PID 12025 (/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-deviced) exited with no errors.
> D [16/Apr/2012:00:52:13 +0700] [CGI] Got device list!
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