{"id":20,"date":"2007-07-28T13:17:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T11:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.robinward.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:18:24","slug":"cups-vs-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"CUPS vs. CUPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today i took some time to upgrade and enhance our student printing functionalities. As i checked the usual printer queues i noticed that cups was suddenly listing a lot of new printers that were not even on our network. Tracing the error lead to a Mac book on the student network that was running a cups daemon with gimp-print drivers.<\/p>\n

Quite odd that a Mac OS X based cups deamon is broadcasting printers to another cups server without checking if the printers are actually availabe.<\/p>\n

Ill try to find out more scenarios in which a cups server will include shared printers from another printer deamons.<\/p>\n

Disabling the printer search<\/strong><\/p>\n

Browsing off<\/code>
\nin \/etc\/cups\/cupsd.conf will disable this feature<\/strike><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today i took some time to upgrade and enhance our student printing functionalities. As i checked the usual printer queues i noticed that cups was suddenly listing a lot of new printers that were not even on our network. Tracing the error lead to a Mac book on the student network that was running a … <\/p>\n

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