lpd setup for remote printer

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Wed Oct 15 20:57:02 PDT 2003


At 9:22 PM -0400 10/15/03, Tom Parquette wrote:
>Garance,
>rp=lp fixed that problem but something else showed up...
>On Stargate I get the following:
>Stargate# lpc status all
>lp:
>         queuing is enabled
>         printing is enabled
>         3 entries in spool area
>         waiting for queue to be enabled on P3R-272.Tom.Parquette.name

On the server machine (which is P3R-272.Tom.Parquette.name
in your case), you need to set up /etc/hosts.lpd to say which
machines that server will accept print jobs from.
Check:   man hosts.lpd

(which will show you that there isn't all that much to the
format of the file...)

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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