On 10/26/01 5:05 PM, Henry B. Hotz (hotz@jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:

>At 1:19 PM -0400 10/26/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>>On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>>>  In my case I have a printer connected directly to a NetBSD machine.
>>>  I didn't want to pay the extra $200 for a network interface.  (That's
>>>  what the NetBSD PC cost a couple of years ago.)  Since MacOS 9 is
>>>  supposed to support the lpr protocol and NetBSD likewise it seemed
>>>  natural to try to make them talk that way.  Why install an extra
>>>  package (that was pretty recalcitrant under Solaris the last time I
>>>  used it)?

Henry,

I figured out how to get this working on my system.  NetBSD was blocking 
the print job from MacOS because the Mac wasn't configured in 
/etc/hosts.lpd and/or /etc/hosts.equiv.  The default files contain a "-" 
which doesn't seem to allow remote system access to the print queue.  
Changing this to "+" and restarting the print daemon on NetBSD allowed me 
to create a Desktop Printer and send output to it from MacOS.  The 
printer queue must match one that is in your /etc/printcap entry to make 
sure the job gets processed correctly to the selected printer.

Hope this helps,
-bob