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Author: David Mandala
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Subject: remote printer problems
When I had to make a hosts.lpd file I was never able to make it work with ip
addresses. When I converted to fqdn's (and I had to add some entries in my
hosts file to match) it started working. If ip's work for you even better.

It is decidedly a pain that there is no man page for this in Linux. It took
me quite a long time to find a reference to a hosts.lpd file. There is a
single reference buried somewhere in something else related to printing. I
found it while debugging exactly the same problem you are having.

Cheers,

Davidm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Buettner [mailto:kev@illusions.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:46 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: remote printer problems
>
>
> On Mar 31, 5:39pm, David Mandala wrote:
>
> > hosts.lpd file file must use fqdn's not ip #'s
>
> Are you sure?
>
> None of my Linux machines seem to have a man page for hosts.lpd. And
> at the moment, I don't feel like digging around in the sources to find
> out. However, my FreeBSD machine's man page has the following to say
> about the matter...
>
> HOSTS.LPD(5)              FreeBSD File Formats Manual         
>     HOSTS.LPD(5)

>
> NAME
>      hosts.lpd - trusted hosts that may use local print services

>
> DESCRIPTION
>      The hosts.lpd file contains a list of hostnames or IP 
> addresses that are
>      allowed to use your local print services.  List every 
> hostname or IP ad-
>      dress on a line itself.

>
> FILES
>      /etc/hosts.lpd       The hosts.lpd file resides in /etc.

>
> SEE ALSO
>      printcap(5),  lpd(8).

>
> FreeBSD                          June 1, 1996                 
>                1

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