From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 18:14:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698CF37B404 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.177.141.133]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010130021212.ZDLY21891.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:12:12 -0800 Message-ID: <3A762369.3F60AE65@home.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:14:01 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zhibing@tsp.ece.mcgill.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Network Printer References: <3A76066A.1C9AFCAD@tsp.ece.mcgill.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The argument for rm should be the hostname of the remote host not the IP address. put the name and address in /etc/hosts and use the hostname instead. suerte raymundo Zhibing Wang wrote: > > Hi : > > I am trying to access a stand alone network printer, HP > LaserJet 2100M. > My /etc/printcap file look like , > > lp:\ > :sh:\ > :rm=:\ > :rp=raw:\ > :sd=/var/spool/output/lphost:if=/var/log/lpd-errs: > > The IP address is ok, I can ping & telnet on the printer. > The lpd can start, but everytime I use "lp", it shows error" > unknow printer". > I am using FreeBSD 4.2. > What can I do ? > Greatly appreciated any suggestion > > Regards, > Zhibing > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message