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

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

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