Q: Disabling Printer Sharing

I'm preparing to bring a few hundred unmanaged Macs into a managed environment, AD integration and MCX.

I've scripted most of the administrative changes I need to make, but have not figured out yet how to disable Printer Sharing (some users have enabled it, and I need that turned off).

Can anyone advise a CLI command to disable printer sharing?

thanks, Darrin

Posted on Oct 29, 2009 7:24 AM

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doug pennington Oct 30, 2009 12:54 AM in response to DPert
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Oct 30, 2009 12:54 AM in response to DPert

doug-penningtons-power-mac-g4:~ dougp$ cupsctl --share-printers
doug-penningtons-power-mac-g4:~ dougp$ cupsctl
SystemGroup=admin
SystemGroupAuthKey=system.print.admin
DefaultAuthType=Basic
debuglogging=0
remoteadmin=0
remoteany=0
remoteprinters=1
shareprinters=1
user_cancelany=0
doug-penningtons-power-mac-g4:~ dougp$ cupsctl --no-share-printers
doug-penningtons-power-mac-g4:~ dougp$ cupsctl
SystemGroup=admin
SystemGroupAuthKey=system.print.admin
DefaultAuthType=Basic
debuglogging=0
remoteadmin=0
remoteany=0
remoteprinters=1
shareprinters=0
user_cancelany=0
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/sharing.html and in your browser for admin tasks:
http://localhost:631/

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DPert Oct 30, 2009 6:14 AM in response to doug pennington
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Oct 30, 2009 6:14 AM in response to doug pennington

Fantastic, thanks Doug.

Darrin
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doug pennington Oct 30, 2009 9:31 AM in response to DPert
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Oct 30, 2009 9:31 AM in response to DPert

Welcome Darrin. Doug
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