Re: OT: A Little Tip for Canon Printers

http://www.turboprint.info/ the "Free" version tends to not have the most recent drivers for the newer printers, but it may have yours. Otherwise you can use the commercial version,
Phil W.

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From: "James Dugger" <james.dugger@gmail.com>
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Cc: robyn@rdharriscpa.com
Sent: Friday, October 8, 2010 12:40:44 PM
Subject: Re: OT: A Little Tip for Canon Printers

Speaking of Canon printers, does anyone know if there is/was any support for the Canon imageclass mf5750 4in1 printer scanner? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit server on the machine that I want to turn into a print server (through Samba so Windows machines can print to it).

I can't find anything ... , and don't want to have to buy a new printer. :(



On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Andrew Harris < tuna@supertunaman.com > wrote:


Hi,

For the past few days, my family has been suffering intolerable slowness on our wireless network. It was only on wifi; all the wired computers seemed fine. I ran virus scans on the Windows boxen, tried a few options on the router (a WRT54GL), and *almost* googled for "slow Linksys router". But then I opened up Wireshark (yes, I know, that should have been my *first* thought).

The first thing I noticed were shitloads of MDNS packets flying by, and the router trying to keep up with it all. A scrolling wall of crimson with occasional interruptions in Cisco-white. I clicked on one of the MDNS packets and saw that it was actually my printer. I yanked the powercord from the printer and it all stopped immediately. Our printer was attempting to DoS us! Our very own printer! How rude.

I plugged the printer back in and immediately went into the admin panel (served on port 80 at the printer's IP address) and disabled Bonjour and LPR service notification. I suggest you do the same should you purchase a Canon printer with builtin wifi.

Just remember, in the robot uprising, DoS attacks come first. Disable Bonjour on your devices before it comes to skeletal robots with miniguns mounted on either shoulder.

-ah
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