[cups] filtering available printers, group separation and multiple cups instances on one server

[Michael Sweet]

Johannes,

> On Apr 28, 2017, at 4:08 AM, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:
> ...
> But I think running several cupsds on one same host
> requires that all but one of those cupsds must listen
> at different non-standard ports (i.e. not at the standard
> IPP port 631) so that all but one of those cupsds would be
> in paractice unaccessible from standard client programs.
> Or do I perhaps misunderstand something here?

You can have each cupsd run on the standard port but explicit addresses, or on separate ports.  The clients would typically point to the corresponding address and port in client.conf or in manually configured client queues.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer