Re: Printer problems

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jared M Breland wrote:

> I'm running a scan against a rather large subnet of Windows desktops.
> However, several network printers are also on this subnet.  When one of
> these printers gets hit, it prints out about 10 pages of garbage data.
>
> I searched through the archives and found several mentions of this in the
> past, but I didn't see a solution for it.  Has anyone come up with a good
> way to stop this from happening?

Evade the printers. Adding them as restricted hosts in your rules could be
one way but you must do this through manual labor.

Hugo.

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