If you want to allow printing from ANYWHERE (inside your firewall), you
should be able to put just a line containing "+" in hosts.lpd.

> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:49:32 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Carey F. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: pump and remote printing
> 
> > No, the server is not able to resolve the client hostname. However, I
> > haven't seen any error messages on the server, just on the client. As most
> > workstation addresses (static ips reserved for servers only) are
> > dynamically allocated on this campus from one dhcp server, the possible
> > addresses would be quite large. I would have to use the domain name,
> > .lamar.edu. I have tried adding .lamar.edu, *.lamar.edu, 140.158., and
> > 140.158.*.* to /etc/hosts.lpd with no success. Further, documentation on
> > /etc/hosts.lpd is scarce. Am I doing this correctly?
> > 
> > The little documentation that I've found leads me to believe that lpd need
> > explicit IP addresses or resolvable hostnames. I've tried network numbers
> > and network/netmask combos without success. There just doesn't seem to be a
> > good solution for this.


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