Subject: Re: Remote printing using lpd
To: Paul Apprich <paul.apprich@verizon.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/2006 16:46:32
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:22:40 -0500, Paul Apprich
<paul.apprich@verizon.net> wrote:


> 
> #	$NetBSD: printcap,v 1.11 2002/07/01 23:10:19 hubertf Exp $
> #	from: @(#)printcap	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
> rlp|line printer on ziggurat:\
>  	:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> 	:mx#0:\
> 	:rm=192.168.0.254:rp=lp
> 
> rps|Ghostscript driver on ziggurat:\
> 	:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> 	:mx#0:\
> 	:rm=192.168.0.254:rp=ps
> 
I have vague recollections that rm= has to point to a hostname, not an IP
address.  You may want to see if changing that, perhaps with /etc/hosts
entries, helps. (Again, this is a *very* vague memory.)


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb