Hello there, When at home, I connect my laptop to my desktop via PLIP. The printer I have, is connected to the desktop, so I had setup lpd on my laptop in a way, that it can do remote printing via the desktop (remote line printer entry in /etc/printcap). This works fine with slink on the desktop. Recently I installed potato on the desktop. From then on, remote printing from the laptop didn't work anymore. The messages I get when I issue lpr -Prp are: lpr: connect: file or directory not found jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. if I do lprm -Prp I get: desktophostname: /usr/sbin/lpd: lp: your host does not have line printer access. I supposed it had something to do with the access-control formerly provided by the /etc/hosts.lpd file. So I read the manpage about lpd, if something has changed with access-control via the /etc/hosts.lpd file. But obviously no change. Then I looked for the /etc/hosts.lpd file but could not find it. So I created one and put the hostname of the laptop in. It didn't help. Then I tried the IP-Number. Didn't help either (always terminated and restarted lpd inbetween). So my questions: First of all: How do I get things to work (i.e. allow access to printing services on the desktop for my laptop)? Why is the /etc/hosts.lpd file still mentioned in the manpage, if it doesn't work and if it is not included in potato?
Regards, Daniel