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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:56:58 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lpd setup for remote printer
Message-ID:  <p06002007bbb3c663a6fe@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <3F8DF2C3.4010306@twcny.rr.com>
References:  <3F8D8F1D.80703@twcny.rr.com> <p06002005bbb34f50be48@[128.113.24.47]> <3F8DF2C3.4010306@twcny.rr.com>

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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@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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