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From: "Carlos R. Perez-Montalvo" <carlos@charma.uprm.edu>
To: Vinod <geekvinod@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: help with remote printing
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I believe that its looking for the default printer which is mostly "lp" 
and is not defined in your printcap file. Try adding the alias lp into 
your printcap file.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Vinod wrote:

> I was trying to connect to a remote printer on the
> campus network with ipaddr of 152.15.24.65 but am
> getting the message lpr: lp: unknown printer.
> This what i have in my /etc/printcap.Can anyone tell
> me what could be going wrong.i am certain of the
> printer's ipaddr(i tried pinging it with its name and
> got the ipaddr).
> 
> 
>  remote|sample remote printer:\
> 	:sh:\
> 
> :rm=152.15.24.65:sd=/var/spool/output/hp8100ps:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
> 	:if=/usr/local/libexec/if-script:
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Vinod
> 
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Thank you,
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|Carlos R. Perez-Montalvo	       |
|SysAdm -- High Energy Physics [UPRM]  |
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