How to Turn off Bonjour

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How to Turn off Bonjour

Ok, so we have a computer in our lab that will be setup for use for printing to our High End color printer, and we have a print accounting program for this one computer but I'm having an issue with the computers in the lab picking up the through Bonjour.

How do you either turn bonjour off on a printer (which is a HP 9500) or just turn the function off for seeing printers through Bonjour in Tiger.

i thought that turning off AppleTalk on the printer would stop the printer from being picked up through Bonjour.

Any ideas.

Tks,
Carter

Mac Book Pro 1.83ghz, 1gig Ram, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 7:15 AM

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Answer 1

carter.x Author

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Sep 27, 2006 2:35 PM in response to Camelot

already looked at this option, and the issue is that you can not turn it off from here. It's greyed out and doesn't let you change it.

There is another solution which is by tying in a Unix command, but I did it, and it just came up saying no path. So would not work for me.

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Macnetworkprog/2005/Jun/msg00024.html

I'm now trying to get ahold of HP..... which seems to be the hardest thing in the world. All I want to do is turn Bonjour offffffffffff....... lol

Tks,
Carter

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carter.x Author

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Sep 29, 2006 6:53 AM in response to carter.x

well..... I was able to find out how to turn the function off on the printer. It was the option called "mDNS". The HP printer uses this to comunicate with Bonjour. So just unselected it and now were running good.

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Camelot

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Sep 27, 2006 10:51 AM in response to carter.x

Use /Applications/Utilities/Directory Access

This app defines the directory protocols the system uses. 'Bonjour' should be one of the options.

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Answer 4

Sep 27, 2006 2:55 PM in response to carter.x

http://Gnarlodious.com/Apple/AppleScript/Scripts/BroadcastDisabler.html

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