After hours of reading every faq and scouring every newsgroup and web site I
could think of I can't find help on what I would assume if a fairly easy
question.
I have two Redhat 6.0 installations here that are networked together. I
simply want to print from one to the other that has a printer on it. When I
print from the client machine the job just sits in the local print queue.
lpq shows the status of the job and has the message "waiting for queue to be
enabled on opus". lpq on opus shows the queue enabled so I'm a bit confused.
Here's the printcap of the client machine:
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=opus:\
:rp=lp:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
and I have the client machine listed in hosts.allow on the server. I even
got desperate and created a hosts.lpd and hosts.equiv file with the client
machine listed.
Then I started lpd up with logging to watch what happens when the client
machine attempts to send a print job. An error is generated by lpd,
"unknown printer /dev/lp0" which seems odd as the printcap file on the
server (on which printing works fine) uses this definition:
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
How can /dev/lp0 work on the server but generate an error from lpd when
started from a remote client?
Here's some output from the system log generated when I printed from the
remote client machine and then from the server with the printer attached:
Dec 30 14:25:19 opus lpd[22620]: unknown printer /dev/lp0
Dec 30 14:29:35 opus lpd[22633]: unknown printer /dev/lp0
Dec 30 14:30:06 opus kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2]
Dec 30 14:30:06 opus kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
Dec 30 14:30:06 opus kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Confused as usual, help appreciated.
Cheers and happy holidays.
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Darrell Burkey
http://www.tucan.net/darrell
0408 622 647
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