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: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> 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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