Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I have a system set up for my family that is networked with the rest of my systems. I want their machine to be able to print to my machine. I have lprng installed on their system and a printcap entry setup. This printcap entry works for network printing from my laptop also running

Re: Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Symbolic links work fine across separate filesystems, NFS or otherwise. Hard links cannot be made to files outside the filesystem where the file linked to resides. I would guess rather that the link failure refers to an inability to connect (or a connection which terminates). Look at the lpd man

Re: Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I found part of the problem. I added my brothers' computer to /etc/hosts.lpd and it gave them access. However I have another problem. After they print a message is sent by the lpd on my server back to the user account on their machine. The message says: Your printer job ((stdin))

Re: Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm not too sure. If you print to a remote printer then the file must be sent over the network. I'm not sure why the daemon would complain then about the file not being linked. Joseph A. Martin wrote: Hello, I found part of the problem. I added my brothers' computer to