On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Paul Payne wrote:
> Hello to all.
>
> I know this should be easy but I'm stumped. I've read everything I can get my
> hands on and as far as I understand it everything is configured. (Theres the
> rub, maybe?)
>
> I have a DeskJet 682C on rocko. It prints fine. I can print to it from the
> Win98 boxes on the network. I can't print to it from any other Linux box. I
> have used printtool to set it up and it all looks alright. When I send a test
> page I get 'connect: connection refused' yada, yada. I know about the
> existence of a hosts.lpd, but don't know its format. I assume (aha!) it goes
> in /etc and I have cp'd my /etc/hosts to /etc/hosts.lpd, removing hosts I don't
> need to print from. Anybody know the correct way to use this file? Is it even
> necessary? Thanks for any and all ideas. Paul
The format is different. On my machine, hosts.lpd has a list of allowed IP
addresses, and it seems to work...
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.3
192.168.1.4
Frank
>
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