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>If you just give it a host like any other IP device on your network,
Re: Requests and Issues
From: Alexi Touloumis
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998
Time: 10:04:29 am
>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
What about just blocking the address at the router from being accessible
outside the LAN? We won't have any uses for users outside the LAN printing
to this. I was also just wondering if it could be blocked on our switch
(SSII 3000) somehow...
Alexi
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