On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:26, Stuart Jansen wrote: > I dont' know much about jetdirect. LPR may allow anyone to print, but it > _doesn't_ advertise it and doesn't allow clear text admin over http. I > liked CUPS, but decided to go with LPRng because I didn't feel like > taking to time to lock down CUPS.
Jetdirect doesn't advertise either, but has no capability for authentication, other than host limiting, just like LPR. > > Anyway, it was too much of a pain going between my work CUPS and home > CUPS setup. Advertising was supposed to make it easier, but would > occasionally break. As for admining, if you want web based configuration > use Webmin and make yourself a certificate. Apache is much easier to > lock down--and more appropriate in my opinion. CUPS can certainly be configured to use SSL. By default cups will only bind to 127.0.0.1 for the admin interface, so encrypted passwords isn't a big deal. > > Maybe Rendevous and Zeroconf will improve things. I don't know. > > Just my $.02 -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
