[ale] Remote printing

[mshade at mindspring.com (Matt Shade)]

You got it!!
I wasn't fully qualifying the domain names in hosts.lpd. As soon as I
did that did a :wq!, theh printer started spitting out the queued up
entries! 

Thanks Stan,
Matt


Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu wrote:
> 
> Sounds like you might have two different problems.
> 
> Do the print jobs print locally?  If not, for lp, did you enable lp and accept lp after creating them in /etc/printcap on both machines?  ie.
> lpc> enable myprinter
> lpc> accept myprinter
> 
> I would recommend changing syslog.conf to write debug info for lpd to one of the system logs.  You'll be able to see the problems that lpd is having there.
> 
> Sometimes on rsh, you must put the fully qualified domain name. For example my .rhost file would have (and make sure it's readable by that user):
> system bgates
> system.acme.com bgates
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> STAN