Anybody else have 'hoards of shared printers' in the list?

[Scott Anguish]

could these be printers outside your local network but still visible ?

i.e. other mac users on your provider's local net?


On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Jim Witte wrote:
>  I'm using (Intel) OSX 10.4.10, sharing a printer (Brother DCP-7020)  
> from a (PPC) 10.4.11 machine. I will often see at least two,  
> sometimes 7 or 8 printers listed in the "Shared Printers" submenu -  
> all the same, but only one of them seems to activate the Print  
> button.  What are all the other "ghosts" doing there?  On the host  
> machine, all the printers showed up as well in Printer Setup.
>
>  This problem persisted even after I removed all the 'ghosts' (and  
> the one working queue as well) from the host machine, and then re- 
> added the printer - I gave it a name different from the default  
> driver name.  Now on the "slave" mac I have two printers listed  
> under that name, and before I when I had the whole slew of printers,  
> they all had the default driver name.
>
>  Anybody else have this problem?  Is this a known bug (and is it  
> fixed in Leopard)?
>
> Jim
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