Sharing a printer

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 20:55:56 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Lisi wrote:
> > > Provided that you have the relevant packages loaded (cups
> > > client and cups server), CUPS will do this for you
> > > automatically.  Or should I say automagically?  ;-)
> > 
> > Are you saying that cups, in its default configuration, will
> > announce and make available any printer you have connected to
> > your computer? That would seem rather risky to me...
> 
> No, makes available any printer, _installed on_ and connected to a
> computer on the network, to any other computer on the network
> with an operating CUPS.

IOW, when I want to use a printer connected to my computer, I will 
also give everybody else on the network access to it.

> I find this very useful on occasion. 
> You can presumably avoid this by not installing cups server.

By not installing the cups server, you also avoid being able to 
properly use and configure your printer, if it happens to be 
connected to the computer you didn't install the cups package on.

> This is dynamic, so printers appear and disappear as computers are
> booted up/shut down.
> 
> This is what the OP was wanting to achieve, so far as I could see.

Sure - but it definitely shouldn't be the default! (And I'm not sure 
WinXP supports the cups protocol - anybody know?)
My /etc/cupsd.conf.default suggests that this isn't default behaviour 
on karmic. I seem to remember having a choice in the matter somewhere 
during the installation process.

  --Reinhold