-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 18 janv. 07 à 09:47, John Andersen a écrit :
You don't want it to broadcast. You will have all sorts of people trying to print to your printer.
Yes I do. My local network, including my printing server, is behind my router's firewall, on which port 631 is closed. Inside this little network, I have four computers, all belonging to me. I think I'm allowed to configure my server the way I like it best, since no one can enter this network from the outside (at least on port 631). Especially since my little iBook is smart enough to dynamically choose any available printer when I want to print, so that I never have to manually declare anything by hand.
You want to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to allow access to the printers section (but not the admin section) from anywhere, or perhaps a list of subnets you trust.
Thanks for the pointer. But isn't that what the "Remote access settings" already does? I'd like to find documentation on that new option in YaST2.
You can also require authentication, but that probably opens another can of worms.
I wholeheartedly agree here. ;-)
Then, you can print to your printer from anywhere, from with linux machines and windows machines. (Win2k and later understand ipp protocol.)
I didn't know that Windows could understand IPP. Thanks again.
I have had several cups printers on different networks accepting remote jobs from anywhere for over three years now and never had any unknown print show up. However, I don't necessarily recommend opening them to the world.
It was never my intention to open my printer to the world. I'm not an expert, but I'm not that stupid. See above.
I can see several other cups printers on the local internet because Mac users frequently set their cups up to broadcast. This is un-necessary and risky. All you have to do is have your users know how to resolve your server, and open a port (631) in your firewall.
Port 631 is closed by default on Mac OS X's firewall. But you're right, if you activate printer sharing, the port is opened and cupsd broadcasts its queues. I understand the problem theoretically, but in practice it's never a problem and it makes things much easier and adaptable. In any case, thanks for your answer. - -- Thibaut Cousin http://www.thibaut-cousin.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFr1khfBjEv/Ah2egRAqoTAKC2OktRecxg7DyDAkirz1GRcHCJKgCeP7nx S7szaooimPcvnnGoDykCIAU= =tzeV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org