Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, February 1, 2016 9:17 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 >> workstation to, wondering where all the printers were. >> >> It took some investigation to find /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, and see, >> in it, at the very bottom of the file: >> >> # NOTE: This file is not part of CUPS. You need to start & enable >> cups-browsed service. >> >> Which appears to be brand new with 7, and I have not seen any mention of >> it. >> >> Enabled and started, and the network printers are visible on the cups >> localhost web page->printers. > > Unrelated to the topic, but may be helpful for somebody who uses cups > browsing option. I usually turn off cups browsing. Here is why: someone > brings laptop to our network, and may have one of his/her printers > "shared". Somebody else finds, sets it up, and happily uses it. Till the > first person goes away. Then second person comes to me telling my printer > doesn't work. Which is not my printer, in a sense I can do nothing about > what the second person had done about that printer... > You're in a different environment. I guarantee no one's wandering in with a printer here. Plus, on our VLAN, we are the ones giving out IP addresses, and *only* to MAC addresses we know. We don't know 'em, they don't get on the network. mark