On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:34:19 -0000
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you think the approach is insecure
> I'd suggest
> posting a report to the cups mail list.

No, it's not insecure. The thing is that it uses "public" community name.
That and only that one, after install. For snmp discovery of printers with
different community names, manual editing of /etc/cups/snmp.conf is required.

So, SNMP backend will not detect all SNMP-capable printers on network. This
is unlike IPP backend which reports all correctly configured printers/printer
servers.

Martin I can confirm that snmp backend works with printers that are in
"public" community, so it's up to you (or higher instances) to decide will
snmp work out of the box or not.

Walter, could you test if SNMP printers are detected even if Browsing is Off
(I can't ATM)? If this is true and we add snmp backend to default backends,
then we would have out of the box SNMP discovery, but not IPP? Martin, what
do you think about that? Doesn't sound reasonable to me :)

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the snmp backend should be installed in /usr/lib/cups/backend
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54259

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