hosts.lpd is the file which controls lpd remote permissions same as the
rhosts etc...
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Darrell Burkey wrote:
> After hours of reading every faq and scouring every newsgroup and web site I
> could think of I can't find help on what I would assume if a fairly easy
> question.
>
> I have two Redhat 6.0 installations here that are networked together. I
> simply want to print from one to the other that has a printer on it. When I
> print from the client machine the job just sits in the local print queue.
> lpq shows the status of the job and has the message "waiting for queue to be
> enabled on opus". lpq on opus shows the queue enabled so I'm a bit confused.
>
> Here's the printcap of the client machine:
>
> lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :rm=opus:\
> :rp=lp:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
> and I have the client machine listed in hosts.allow on the server. I even
> got desperate and created a hosts.lpd and hosts.equiv file with the client
> machine listed.
>
> Then I started lpd up with logging to watch what happens when the client
> machine attempts to send a print job. An error is generated by lpd,
> "unknown printer /dev/lp0" which seems odd as the printcap file on the
> server (on which printing works fine) uses this definition:
>
> lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
> How can /dev/lp0 work on the server but generate an error from lpd when
> started from a remote client?
>
> Here's some output from the system log generated when I printed from the
> remote client machine and then from the server with the printer attached:
>
> Dec 30 14:25:19 opus lpd[22620]: unknown printer /dev/lp0
> Dec 30 14:29:35 opus lpd[22633]: unknown printer /dev/lp0
> Dec 30 14:30:06 opus kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2]
> Dec 30 14:30:06 opus kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> Dec 30 14:30:06 opus kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
> Confused as usual, help appreciated.
>
> Cheers and happy holidays.
>
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> Darrell Burkey
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