From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 14: 0:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (okc-65-26-223-53.mmcable.com [65.26.223.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E3937B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikea@mikea.ath.cx) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f71L0hA93513 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:00:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mikea) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:00:42 -0500 From: mikea To: FreeBSD Stable Listserv Subject: Re: printcap question Message-ID: <20010801160042.A93465@mikea.ath.cx> References: <200108012040.f71Ket224506@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200108011602200247.01D881F1@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200108011602200247.01D881F1@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us>; from dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:02:20PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:02:20PM -0500, Douglas G. Allen wrote: > David, > > >Yes. The bare IP address might work, but as noted, I don't do that. > > I have people telling me it should, but it's not any > real problem to make another entry in /etc/hosts to > cover myself (and the printer). > > >Or you can think of the networked printer as being an incredibly simple > >"host" that has a fancy printer attached. :-} > > True. > > >(Fair warning: I suspect that HP's implementation of lpd leaves a lot > >to be desired, such as the ability to queue requests.) > > But if they say a printer is lpd compatible, then I would > at least expect it to understand the information sent to it > by lpd. My guess is that it won't queue requests, unless it > has a drive of some sort in it, other than on the machine > that asks for the print job. Very much like a Windoze > client does with the same printer(s). The HPs we use here are all networked; the lpd implementation works just dandy. I wish I could say that about _all_ the printers we use here. I have, BTW, seen diskless printers that will queue jobs up to the size of their queue memory, as distinct from their image memory. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message