Ante Karamatić wrote: > 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. > Yes. I agree it's something the user has to be told about. Perhaps in a README.Ubuntu.gz file ;-)
> 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 :) > > I have confirmed that snmp probing for printers works if Browsing is Off. Walter -- the snmp backend should be installed in /usr/lib/cups/backend https://launchpad.net/bugs/54259 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
