[UniMacTech] Students can see Staff printers in 10.5.5

Matthew Taylor mrtaylor at utas.edu.au
Tue Oct 14 14:34:33 EST 2008


Hi All,

I'm using work group manager to control our users.  Both staff and  
students have network home directories on the server.  All clients and  
the server are 10.5.5.  The "Staff" group have one list of printers in  
their managed preferences, the student a different list.

The problem is that students have access to various staff printers and  
can print to any printer.

Strangely if a student accesses the "Print and Fax" control panel in  
system preferences they only see their printers.  If they print from  
an application (say, safari) they see their printers PLUS a list of  
staff printers.  The names of the printers in this list are not coming  
from the printers themselves - they appear to be the same as listed in  
the "User's Printer List" for the staff group in WGM.

Has anyone come across this before?  Do you think it's got something  
to do with Appletalk (which is turned off) or Bonjour?

Any help appreciated!


Matt Taylor
Computer Support
Academy of the Arts
University of Tasmania
(03) 6324 4412



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