On Thursday 25 October 2001 21:04, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:13:04PM -0500, Brad Felmey wrote:
> > On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 07:56, Claudio wrote:
> >
> > I'll have to agree. This is just bone-dead dumb. I have the same issue -
> > every time CUPS is updated or whatever on any of the gazillion machines
> > here at work, I get to go find everything with browse=enabled and turn
> > it off, otherwise the printer list is unmanageable.
>
> I don't have a large network of computers with CUPS installed, just my
> two computers here at home. What is the issue? What happens with all
> of these computers doing "CUPS browsing"?
>
> If there is a problem with CUPS browsing being enabled on all of those
> computers, it sounds like it is more of an issue with CUPS than with
> Mandrake's enabling of browsing in the distro. Maybe it is worthwhile
> taking up the issue with the CUPS author(s).
>
> b.
The problem is CUPS, of course, but all the systems that use CUPS at
Department are Mandrake-Linux PCs. I found that the problem is ONLY that
fucking option that is NOT turned off by default. CUPS works greatly even
without that option. Moreover, it's much more secure to turn browsing off!
I know it's not a problem with a small network where -maybe- you don't even
need a real "printserver". But mine is a great one. I have to organize
networke-printer for hundred of users. There are about 50 different
print-que. If a print fails, I receive 30 phone calls in a minute. So it
should NOT happen that "something" capture a printer and makes it unavailable
to the server (and then to the users). That "something" is any
Mandrake-installed machine that choose CUPS as printing system.
If my REAL cups server go down for a minute, I lost the control on the
printer that have been chosen from the other machine. My entry list can be
filled with entries like
hp-solid@feefoo
lw-astro@stoled
....and so on!
I MUST find the root of feefoo, the root of stoled etc. etc. so that I MUST
gently ask them if they can stop cups for 5 minutes! Just 5 minutes so that I
can restart my cups server!!! Come on: it's ridicolous.
So, again: why don't you at Mandrakesoft turn off the browsing option?
There are many people asking that as I could see in these months.
Thanks for your attention,
Claudio
--
Claudio Panichi
System/Network Admin at Dept. of Physics
"Tor Vergata" University and INFN - Sec. "Roma II"
Remote System is: LINUX Mandrake 8.2 (Cooker)
LA STABILIT� � PER I DEBOLI! =;p
