From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 12:26:00 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 7B62916A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56B743FAF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9FJPvF1000351; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:25:57 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3F8D8F1D.80703@twcny.rr.com> References: <3F8D8F1D.80703@twcny.rr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:25:56 -0400 To: Tom Parquette , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: lpd setup for remote printer 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: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:26:00 -0000 At 2:17 PM -0400 10/15/03, Tom Parquette wrote: > >I'm trying to configure printing on the "local" machine >(Stargate) to point to lp on P3R-272. > >This is what I currently have coded in Stargate's printcap >file: > >lp|HP2000 on P3R-272:\ > :sh:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ > :rm=P3R-272.Tom.Parquette.name: If you do not have 'rp=' specified, then (iirc) lpd will assume you mean a local printer. Try adding rp=lp: to the above printcap entry. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu