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How do I disable automatic remote printer installation in 20.04?


My neighbor has a printer on our shared wifi network. Every time I go to print something, his printer shows up as an available printer. I have removed it multiple times, and it keeps reappearing, sometimes within seconds.


I tried (1) disabling cups-browsed as suggested in this very old thread and (2) sudo apt purge cups-browsed, but the printer continues to reappear in the print dialog box and Settings > Printers (even after purging cups-browsed).


The printer appears in avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp. But it does not appear in lpstat -t, even when the printer is visible and listed as "Ready" in Settings > Printers.


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The only thing I have found so far that works is to disable avahi-daemon with sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon. So far that hasn't broken anything else I do.


[#1990] Saturday, June 18, 2022, 2 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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