On Wed, 24 May 2000, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> The problem is that Mandrake is not allowing access to the printer
>from other machines. When I boot this machine with COL 2.3 it works
>fine,so the other machine is set up correctly. COL uses a lpd.perm file
>to allow or deny printer access to other Linux machines. I just can't
>figure out how Mandrake does this,since it doesn't have the lpd.perm
>file. Perhaps they use some other file to do this job or some other
>security setting.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
I don't know what COL2.3 is. What I understood when setting up the printer
on my 2nd box, and having it used from the 1st one, is that the network
has to run, and on the 1st (without printer), I had to point the
printqueue to the remote machine's printqueue. After that it was all fine.
Paul
>Paul wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 23 May 2000, Daniel Anderson wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > How do I allow printer access to other Linux machines on my network?
>> >My Windoze machine has access through Samba, but I can't access the
>> >printer from a Linux machine. There doesn't seem to be a lpd.perm file.
>> >Does Mandrake do this differently? I'm running Mandrake 7.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dan
>>
>> Printing from linux box to linux box is quite simple, once your network
>> runs. Look at printtool (run as root / su), that should get you going.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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