09 May 2005How To Restrict Printer Information Being Received From A Client Or Server

Printer browsing allows your server to automatically share its printers with client machines and other servers. To make sure printer information only comes from certain servers and clients, edit the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. Locate the BrowseOrder, BrowseAllow and BrowseDeny directives and then edit or add IP or netmask addresses to your liking. Some examples:

# Deny from everybody except for servers 192.10.2.3 and 192.10.2.5

BrowseOrder deny,allow BrowseDeny from all BrowseAllow 192.10.2.3 BrowseAllow 192.10.2.5

# Deny from everybody except for servers under 192.10.2.x

BrowseOrder deny,allow BrowseDeny from all BrowseAllow 192.10.2.0/255.255.255.0

To enable the changes in the configuration file, restart the cupsd daemon.