network printer issue

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Peter Farrar wrote:

>      Please help-
>      
>      I finally acquired a printer.  I have two machines on a home network 
>      running Slackware 4.0.  The remote machine can not print.
>      
>      NewBox has the printer connected to it and prints OK.  Happy is 
>      remote, and is spooling the file and waiting for the other machine to 
>      come up.  The other machine is up.  I am able to telnet and FTP 
>      between the two machines.  What am I missing?
> 
>      On NewBox:
>      NewBox# cat /etc/services | grep print
>      printer 515/tcp         spooler         # line printer spooler
>      
>      NewBox# cat /var/spool/lpd/status
>      lp is ready and printing
>      
>      On Happy:
>      happy# cat /var/spool/lpd/status
>      waiting for NewBox to come up
>      
>      happy# cat /etc/printcat
>      # Remote printer
>      lp:rm=NewBox

What you're missing is permissions.

For a host to accept print connections from a remote, the remote has to be
listed in the hosts.lpr or hosts.equiv file on the host. hosts.lpr just
lets them print; hosts.equiv lets them administer print queues and use 'r'
commands (rlogin, etc.).


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