Re: remote printing permissions [solved]

[John Stevenson <John@oa.nl>]

To solve my problem of remote printing, it was very simple (once
I found out what I was doing).

Edit the /etc/lpd.perms so that it allows remote print job
requests:

Find these following lines in the file:

# reject remote prints from arbitrary hosts
REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER

Replace them with the following lines:

# accept remote prints from arbitrary hosts
ACCEPT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER


Most importantly of all you need to re-run the printer spooler. 
If you have lprng installed (instead of lpr) then you have to do
the following:

/etc/init.d/lprng restart

You may also have to do: 

/etc/init.d/lpd restart  

and then everything should be working...

It is not needed to edit /etc/hosts.lpd or /etc/hosts.equiv

Hope this helps you all out.
John.



wax_man@bellsouth.net wrote:
> 
> On 14 Mar, Alec Smith wrote:
> > You can use individual IP addresses -- Mine is
> >
> > 130.108.229.31
> > 130.108.229.32
> >
> > You can also use something like 130.108.229 to indicate that an entire
> > subnet has access. The general format is something similar, but not
> > identical to hosts.allow/hosts.deny.
> >
> > Other than that, there really isn't all that much.
> >
> > Be sure and restart lpd after editing this file... In /etc/init.d do a
> > ./lpd restart Without doing this, your changes will not take effect until
> > the machine is rebooted.