On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:04:57PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:30:51AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > >>On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> >The difference between lpd and LPRng is one of access control. Having > >the fine-grained access control comes at the price of more difficult > >setup (more docs to read). I also haven't seen any updates to it for a > >few years so I wonder about any security support. > It seems to me that LPRng just has more fancy way of creating > /etc/printcap file comparing to LPD. The project was abanded by its > creator 2005 and then picked up by someone else. I wonder if I had > 200-300 printers attached to my printer server how easy hard would be to > set those using only LPD. And this is the big difference between lpd and LPRng. With LPRng you can specify who can use what of those printers even if all the originators are on the same box. I think that lpd just lets you specify what boxes can make print requests. Doug.
