Subject: Re: Remote printing using lpd
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Paul Apprich <paul.apprich@verizon.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/2006 18:14:00
On Sunday 12 November 2006 04:46 pm, you wrote:
> 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
I changed it to rm=ziggurat and rebooted. I tried printing and I 
catted  /var/spool/lpd/ps/status - 'waiting for queue to be enabled on 
ziggurat'.

Paul