On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:50:58PM -0500, Douglas Troeger wrote:
> I have some basic questions about remote printing, and I am hoping
> someone can set me straight.  I've been using NetBSD for a while,
> but have set up the home network only within the past few weeks.
> 
> On dell, running NetBSD 1.5.2, /usr/sbin/lpd runs with -s.  The -s
> option is turned on by default, from lpd=YES in rc.conf.  I run
> with inetd=NO, and netstat -af inet shows no indication of a listening
> lpd.  Attached to dell is my old Epson printer, and printing (both
> local and via samba) works flawlessly.

You will not be able to serve remote printing requests if you run lpd
with -s. As you saw, it doesn't listen for network requests. To fix
this, try putting lpd_flags="" in rc.conf.

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Soren Jacobsen