[cups.general] How to change to a normal hostname?

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Jul 17 09:15:19 PDT 2012


Michelle,

On Jul 16, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> ...
> But if I go into the admin tab, I can see more then 2400 printer Kyocera
> FS-1030D.  Exactly on all configured IP addresses on the system like
> 
> Kyocera_FS-1030D at 192.168.0.30  ...
> ...
> 
> WTF?

Add "HostNameLookups on" to your cupsd.conf file.

> If I am on my workstation, I can see more then 14.000 printers, even  if
> I have only 6 connected to 6 Computers

Do you have Browsing enabled on the server? Sounds like it is seeing browse packets from all of your other IPs but since it isn't listening on those IPs it is treating them (correctly) as other servers.

________________________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair





More information about the cups mailing list