Security: Finding printers with Google

Why would someone put their printer on the internet????  I really don't know, but they are out there.


Finding Printers with Google


Sometimes for convenience admins will put links to there printers' web interfaces on an Intranet site so they can easily admin them or pull off stored documents. Well, sometimes an Intranet is not really just an Intranet but accessible via the Internet. Google is a great way to find these printers. Here are a few search strings that may be of interest:

Ricoh Savins (Since these printer frequently store documents where to can be downloaded this can be a real killer for security)
          intitle:"web image monitor"
          "/web/user/en/websys/webArch/mainFrame.cgi"
          inurl:"/en/sts_index.cgi"

HP Jetdirects (Varies greatly from model to model)
          inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatcher

Microsoft Clustered Print Server

Creating and Configuring a Highly Available Print Server

Print Services

KB278455

KB197046

ICA Client Printer Creation

Citrix White Paper
http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/584-102-8107/icaprinting.pdf

CTX681954 - Troubleshooting Citrix ICA Printer Auto-creation: "Troubleshooting Citrix ICA Printer Auto-creation "

Links::Printing::TIFF::Acceleration

Graphic printing acceleration

http://www.ggx.com/downloads/datasheets/XipPRINT.pdf

Print jobs that you send to a Windows Server 2003 print queue when the printer is out of paper take a long time after you add paper

WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, turn off SNMP port status for the print queues. To do this, follow these steps:1. Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2. Right-click the printer, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Ports tab.
4. Click Configure Port.
5. Click to clear the SNMP Status Enabled check box, click OK, and then click Close.