Not that I can help or anything, but out of curiosity, what protocol are
you using to share the printer?
-Mark
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm trying to get navalle (192.168.0.3) to use satan's (192.168.0.2) printer.
> here's what i've done:
>
> 1. satan:/etc/hosts.lpd
>
> 192.168.0.3
>
> 2. navalle:/etc/printcap
>
> lp|Remote printer entry:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\ # Local spool directory
> :mx#0:\ # Max file size
>(0==unlimited)
> :sh: # Surpress header page
> :rm=satan:\ # System that has the
>physical printer
> :rp=lp0:\ # Remote printer name on
>satan
>
> 3. satan:/etc/printcap
>
> lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/myfilter:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> :pl#66:\
> :pw#80:\
> :pc#150:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
>
> 4. both machines can ping, scp, ssh, etc each other.
>
> 5. using tcpdump:
>
> i determined that navalle isn't even trying to send packets to satan
> for printing. whatever's going wrong, it's on navalle's side.
>
> 6. logs:
>
> the reason why i'm posting this is that there's nothing in the logs for
> me to act on. no error messages on either machine. i can't even begin
> to guess what's going wrong.
>
> 7. on navalle, lpc status indicates:
>
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> no entries
> lp is ready and printing
>
>
> everything looks great. i'm stumped. any advice?
>
> pete
>
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