From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 22:29:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EC916A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:29:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxsf30.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf30.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAAD43FE0 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from moe.howse.homeunix.net (jackson-66-168-145-25.midtn.chartertn.net [66.168.145.25]) hAR6QSYS050092 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:26:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) From: Charles Howse To: FBSD Questions Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:26:28 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311270026.28445.chowse@charter.net> Subject: connection to remote printer is down X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:29:59 -0000 HI, I haven't had much luck getting questions answered lately, maybe my luck will change on Thanksgiving. I have an HP1100 printer that I set up on machine "moe" with apsfilter, and is working perfectly. I have a hard copy of the Handbook that I went by, and I have Googled with no joy. I'm trying to setup machine "larry" to print text only to the printer on "moe", but I'm not getting anywhere. Jobs get into the local spool, but time out waiting on the remote machine to "come up". I can ping the remote machine with no difficulty. I have the following in /etc/hosts.lpd: [charles@moe ~]$ cat /etc/hosts.lpd # $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts.lpd,v 1.4 1999/08/27 23:23:42 peter Exp $ # # See lpd(8) #machine.domain larry.howse.homeunix.net Here's moe's /etc/printcap: # APS1_BEGIN:printer1 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL hp1100|ljet4;r=600x600;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp1100:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hp1100/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/hp1100/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # APS1_END - don't delete this Here's larry's /etc/printcap: lp|hp1100:\ :lp=:rm=moe:rp=hp1100:sd=/var/spool/output/moe:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: Here's a sample print session on larry: [root@larry ~]# lpr /etc/rc.conf [root@larry ~]# lpq larry.howse.homeunix.net: waiting for moe to come up Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st root 9 /etc/rc.conf 926 bytes connection to moe is down -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net:8080 Random Murphy's Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.