From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 12:19:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6D037B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:19:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id fAEKJpt17352 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <200111142019.fAEKJpt17352@tao.thought.org> Subject: remote printing between 2 networked FBSD systems.... To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Mailing List) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:19:50 -0800 (PST) Organization: <> thought.org: pvblic service Unix since 1986... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a remote printcap entry working 3, 3+ years ago, but have forgotten the exact syntax (aka, magic) entry lines. My printer HP Deskjet is on "tao"; the following is what I have on my remote platform: remote|Sample remote printer:\ :sh:\ :rm=tao.thought.org:sd=/var/spool/output/tao.thought.org:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/hpif Anybody see what I need to add? The missing "@" where the dot is makes no difference. Either way, same: zen# !lpr lpr printcap lpr: lp: unknown printer zen# Thanks for any insights. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message