Speaking of finding printers...

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Tue Mar 24 14:50:08 UTC 2009


On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:28:27 -0500
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Now, if you don't want CUPS to show printers connected to other
> machines, there is a checkbox on the administration page, "Show
> printers shared by other systems", that controls displaying printers
> shared by other systems. I wounder if you could uncheck that, and
> then manually add any network printers you want to use?

Hey! That worked. None of the printers I want to use are on the
same subnet anyway, and by unchecking that box in the web interface,
the printer I didn't want did indeed disappear. Thanks!

(Perhaps what that checkbox really does is turn off the CUPS
broadcast request for other printers?).




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