[cups.general] Accessing Printer Behind NAT

[Michael Sweet]

On Feb 12, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Fred wrote:
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> Referring to your prior mention "By design, you can't re-share a shared printer. ", I guess I have to ask, why not?  The gateway system setup that I want amounts to using that system as a proxy.  What's wrong with that?  I realize that I don't understand enough about the CUPS design philosophy, but from a practical standpoint, allowing a proxy configuration is very useful.


There are issues with authentication and remote access over multiple hops that have bitten us in the past; ultimately we just wanted to limit support for proxy-sharing to what we knew we could actually make work... :)

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair