Mike Lake was once rumoured to have said: > Hi All, > > Some time ago I upgraded my Deb box and since then remote printing to it > from an SGI does not work. I am running testing on the Deb box. > > The print jobs from the SGI appear in its local queue but it does not > apppear in the queue on the Deb box. There is no error message in the > lpd log files to say there is a problem but I get SGI box saying: > error code 1 in request hp-177 on printer hp. > Check /var/spool/lp/log on the printer host. > > The printing HOWTO says that I have to have the machine that wants to > print listed in > either hosts.equiv or hosts.lpd There is no man page for hosts.lpd so I > am presuming that the printing system on Debian does not use this. I > have added the machine name to hosts.equiv to see if that works but no > luck.
*EEEEEEK!* this is where life gets painful. Debian has 3 different printspoolers, all which do remote permissions in a different manner. 'lpd' is the traditional bsd lpd implementation. it uses hosts.lpd to list hosts with access. then there's 'lprng', which most people use, which uses lpd.perms or somesuch (I usually chickened out and used lpd since I knew how to make it work :) ) Then there's 'cups', which is different again. I only recently started using cups on mandrake, so I'm not particularly familiar with it yet. > At the moment I am thinking that the Deb box is just denying the > print job. Is there some other file that I need to setup. The lpd > man says things about a lpd.perms file but I never did have one of > those before. lpd.perms is specifically an lprng thing. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
