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I spent quite some time on the phone with HP asking them about this and
Re: Requests and Issues
From: Alexi Touloumis
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998
Time: 7:54:03 am
they had no idea what I was talking about...they asked me things about my
firewall and said that as long as my workstations were secure no one
outside could print to the printer. I was asking about the exact thing you
stated: that if someone finds the ip of the printer, they could print to
it. Thanks for the little tip!
Alexi
>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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