I work in a public highschool I have a lovely situation with a series of shared printers... The art department has several high quality printers that use archival inks (very expensive) and the printers need to be shared between approximatly 18 machines so the instructor turned on printer sharing, now he gets middle schoolers printing to his printers from the complete opposite end of the school because his printers show up as "shared".
I was faced with 2 solutions for this problem
1. purchese a router to create a sub-lan that will isloate his computers, I would prefer to use our existing hardware.
2. my prefered solution was to stop CUPS from broadcasting the printers existence to the rest of the network, I set all the machines to static IPs (or dynamically assigned static IPs) within the same range 10.11.30.* but im having problems configuring CUPS.
I think I have to remove
"BrowseAddress @local" and add something to allow the 10.11.30.* range to see the printers, I was thinking along the lines of
"BrowseAddress 10.11.30.*"
"BrowseAddress 10.11.30.x"
but it doesn't seem to work, any help would be greatly appreciated.
OS X 10.3-10.4
Apple Emac and Imac