hi,
all the HP network printers have 'host access' lists that you can enable
via bootp or the display. You just put the IP adress of your
printspooler in the access list: that's it, printjobs from other hosts
will be denied, may also work with subnet masks (?)...
Good luck
~Christoph
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> hi again,
>
> We have installed succesfully two hp network printers using LPRng
> and ifhp. Every think seems to work fine, but now we are worried about
> how to avoid that people that don't belong to our subnetwork send jobs
> to our printers. We can't install a firewall because we just can access
> to the hub's output sockets (in tow of them we have plugged printers and
> in the rest of them our computers). (We know that this question doesn't
> regard this mailing list), but any idea?
>
> thank you very much.
>
> best regards.
>
> roger
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