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Rajat jain
Asked: 2019-05-03 03:56:27 +0800 CST

Disable ubuntu 18.04 printer discovery and printing over wireless network

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I want to disable printer discovery and printing over a wifi network.

I have tried:

edit /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf to have

BrowseRemoteProtocols none

BrowseDeny

restart CUPS from Terminal:

service cups restart

It didn't work for ubuntu 18.04

printing 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Set directive BrowseProtocols, this directive apply to both BrowseRemoteProtocols and BrowseLocalProtocols.

    Edit /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf and set BrowseProtocols to:

    BrowseProtocols none

    Then restart cups-browsed service:

    sudo service cups-browsed restart
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