cups-- limit the "broadcast"

From: Unruh (unruh-spam_at_physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: 29 Sep 2005 16:54:21 GMT

I would like to limit the machines that my cups will broadcast the
availability of a printer on that machine to. We are in a university
environment, and have say 20 machines on a network which should be allowed
to print to that printer. The other 235 machines on that network should not
be allowed to print. Now I can limit their right to print under cups, but I
would also like to limit the machines to which my machine will broacast the
availability of its printer to (it is stupid to have 95 printers listed
under cups because they all broadcast their availability to the subnet,
 when 93 of them are off bounds to the machine anyway. It confuses the
users no end to see that impossibly long list and makes it hard to find the
printer you actually want in that long list).

Is there a way to limit the broadcasting of availability to just those
machines which are actually allowed to print on that machine?

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