On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:15:48PM -0400, Kevin Sullivan wrote:
> I'm trying to use cups-1.1.19nb1 from pkgsrc on a NetBSD/i386 1.6.1 
> machine.  I've done this successfully in the past.
> 
> I've got two printers which are reachable via lpd://server/name (the server 
> is an old Tru64 4.0 box).  I installed cups on my NetBSD machine, 
> configured the printers, then sent test jobs.  In cups, one printer shows 
> the error "Remote host did not respond with command status byte after 300 
> seconds!" and the other says "Unable to send LPD command: Broken pipe". 
> Before I installed cups, both worked from the NetBSD machine via "lpr 
> -Pname".
> 
> Has anyone run into this problem before?  Any suggestions?

Hum. I use cups without problems.
Maybe check with tcpdump what's happening ?
Maybe cups allocates a port > 1024, and some lpd servers wants to be acceeded
from a privilegied port.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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