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Re: Requests and Issues
From: Matt Simerson
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998
Time: 5:38:58 pm
If you just give it a host like any other IP device on your network,
anyone, anywhere can print to it. If I were the sporting type with ample
spare time, I'd do a network scan, find your printer, and print something
suitably offending to demonstrate my point. :)
In order to restrict access to it, I have it boot via bootp, and get
assigned an IP address and network on a /30 network. The other device on
that /30 is ..... you guessed it, a unix machine running lpd. Then you
just set up printer security (I do it based on group membership) to
allow/disallow print spooling to that unix host. Now you can securely
print from anywhere in the world, including your local LAN.
Matt
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Alexi wrote:
> >And the cool thing about the 4000N is the JetDirect card. Since it's
> >inherently insecure, you'll want to configure it through a secured IP host
> >but once you've done that, you can print to it from home (via modem) or
> >work. :)
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by configuring it through a secured IP
> host.
>
> Alexi
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