On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Well, it is just a checkbox on the firewall configuration GUI, as
this is a common port you need open on a local network.
>> On all the machines that do NOT have the printer attached, make
sure the
>> "Show printers shared by other systems" box is checked.
>
> Are you saying it should *not* be checked on the one *with*
the
> printer??
>
It can be, but unless you have other network printers, or printers
attached to other computers that you are sharing, you are better off
not having it checked. I tend to be paranoid, and there may be a way
to get CUPS into an add printer loop. (Machine 1 shares the printer,
machine 2 shares machine 1's printer, and advertises it as a printer
available for use on machine 2. machine shares both machine 1's and
machines 2's advertised printers, and also advertises them as its
available loca ers, etc...) You should not be able to do it, but
someone may manage to do it anyway.
In my experience if you don't do something special on a machine with a
local printer as well as sharing remote printers. That something special
must be done in cupsd file on the machine. Otherwise it will ignore the
local printer and only print to the remote printer.
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