hi,
you probably didn't compile with the 'force_localhost@' option. Put it in
the printcap, restart the daemon and the system should behave as you
expect it to...
hope this helps
~christoph
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Villy Kruse wrote:
>
>
> On a system with the following printcap entry for lp23, the clent
> programs will talk to the server at localhost using the remote
> printer name lp instead of the local name lp23. It then returns with
> an error message saying that lp doesn't exist in the local server,
> which indeed it doesn't, but it exists on the remote system ppsclp23.
>
> I don't know if there is a deeper reason for this, or it was some
> mistake. I also tried to do the same on LPRng version 3.7.4 where
> this problem does not occur.
>
>
>
> lp23:\
> :rm=ppsclp23:rp=lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/LPRng/lp23:\
> :mx#0:sh:lf=/var/tmp/lp23:
>
>
> For example lpq returns this message:
>
> $ lpq -P lp23
> Printer: lp23 is lp@localhost
> Printer: lp@ibbi - ERROR: spool queue for 'lp' does not exist on server ibbi
> non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'
>
>
> and lpr returns this message:
>
> $ ls | lpr -P lp23
> Status Information:
> sending job 'vek@ibbi+960' to lp@localhost
> connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
> connected to 'localhost'
> requesting printer lp@localhost
> job 'vek@ibbi+960' transfer to lp@localhost failed
> error 'link error 253' with ack 'ACK_FAIL'
> sending str '^Blp' to lp@localhost
> error msg: 'spool queue for 'lp' does not exist on server ibbi'
> error msg: ' non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f''
>
> --
> Villy
>
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