remote-lp on potato
Hello there,
When at home, I connect my laptop to my desktop via PLIP. The printer I
have, is connected to the desktop, so I had setup lpd on my laptop in a
way, that it can do remote printing via the desktop (remote line printer
entry in /etc/printcap). This works fine with slink on the desktop.
Recently I installed potato on the desktop. From then on, remote
printing from the laptop didn't work anymore.
The messages I get when I issue lpr -Prp are:
lpr: connect: file or directory not found
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
if I do lprm -Prp I get:
desktophostname: /usr/sbin/lpd: lp: your host does not have line printer
access.
I supposed it had something to do with the access-control formerly
provided by the /etc/hosts.lpd file.
So I read the manpage about lpd, if something has changed with
access-control via the /etc/hosts.lpd file. But obviously no change.
Then I looked for the /etc/hosts.lpd file but could not find it.
So I created one and put the hostname of the laptop in. It didn't help.
Then I tried the IP-Number. Didn't help either (always terminated and
restarted lpd inbetween).
So my questions: First of all:
How do I get things to work (i.e. allow access to printing services on the
desktop for my laptop)?
Why is the /etc/hosts.lpd file still mentioned in the manpage, if it
doesn't work and if it is not included in potato?
Regards,
Daniel
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