Re: Permissions and Remote Printing
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:17:41 +0100 Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:55:12 +0200 Erik van der Meulen
> <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl> wrote:
>
> > Dear All - I have two Debian boxes, one of which has a printer
> > connected to it. The printer works (magicfilter), I can print from
> > the local machine (echo 'Hello World' |lp), and also from my other
> > Win boxes using Samba.
>
> You can print from other Windows machines because it's the (local)
> samba who's doing the printing on behalf of the remote user.
>
> > What I have not been able to do is print from another Debian system.
> > If I try to print from my laptop which has the following printcap:
> > ...
> > I get this on the laptop:
> > ...
> > no connect permissions
> > ...
> > permission to print, so I created on the printserver /etc/hosts.lpd
> > which contains only '+', but that did not help.
>
> You neglected to give information on the printing system you're using.
> Looks like LPRNG, though... In that case, I don't think LPRNG uses
> hosts.lpd, that would be utter nonsense. You should perhaps look
> in lpd.perms and/or lpd.conf, under lprng.
^^^^^
That should be /etc/lprng, sorry.
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Carlos Sousa
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