Linux to Linux printing

[Franklin H. Chasen]

I finally got my 2 linux servers printing to each other but it wasn't
easy.  I searched the news groups and found a suggestion to switch from
RH's lpr to LPRng.  I went through the LPRng documentation and made the
switch.  I don't know why RH lpr would not work for me but it no longer
matters.

On 17 Sep 2000, Derek Atkins wrote:

> hosts.lpd only accepts hostnames.  AFAIK, it will not accept an IP
> address.  Also, it will not accept wildcards.
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Franklin H. Chasen" <chasen at world.std.com> writes:
> 
> > I am trying to print over the internet from one RH 6.1 Linux machine to
> > another.  I used printtool to set up appropriate local and remote entries
> > in printcap.
> > 
> > I put the hostname in /etc/hosts.lpd on the remote machine.  I restarted
> > lpd.
> > 
> > However when I try to print, lpc on the local machine tells me that it has
> > the entry in its spool area but is waiting for the remote machine to come
> > up.
> > 
> > I use ssh between the two machines and have disabled most entries in
> > inetd.conf.  Is this the problem?  Does an entry in hosts.lpd look like an
> > entry in hosts with IP number and name?
> > 
> > Any suggestions or pointers will be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> > -Frank
> > 
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> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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