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Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones



On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 06:47:36PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 10 Apr 2022 at 15:40:28 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 01:40:29PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Many printers provide an snmp (Simple Network Management Protocol)
> > > service on port 9100. Check with
> > > 
> > >   nmap 10.76.172.100
> > 
> > I know a corporate network or two which would get you disconnected
> > if you do that :)
> > 
> > Then you've got to go to the firewall admin and beg for being reconnected.
> > So if you try it, first make sure you are on speaking terms with the
> > network/firewall admins (a good idea, regardless...)
> 
> Strange world we live in! One looks at a shop window and the heavy mob
> appear to harass you. Survellance capitalism in action? Or the sysadmin
> is so unsure of the network security in place that it requires drastic
> and immediate action to prevent a peep at services being offered? :)

No. The sysadmin has seen folks running around with Kali Linux USB
sticks and has decided to play safe rather than sorry. Folks are not
forbidden of trying to do network scans, but the sysadmin wants to
know. I can't blame him (I'm on speaking terms with him ;-)

> I was once reprimamaned by Amazon for nmapping my own network. That's
> what I call real devotion to stamping out network discovery.

Now now. No reprimands. The firewall notices and disables that one port,
That's all.

Cheers
-- 
t

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