Re: [vox-tech] remote printing woes

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.oMAPSrg>]

no protocol (that i'm aware of).  afaik, lpd on the local machine takes care
of placing the job in the que on the foreign machine.  i don't know any of
the details, but that can't be too far from what really happens.

pete

On Fri 02 Mar 01,  7:01 PM, Mark K. Kim said: 
> Not that I can help or anything, but out of curiosity, what protocol are
> you using to share the printer?
> 
> -Mark
> 
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> > i'm trying to get navalle (192.168.0.3) to use satan's (192.168.0.2) printer.
> > here's what i've done:
> > 
> > 1. satan:/etc/hosts.lpd
> > 
> >     192.168.0.3
> > 
> > 2. navalle:/etc/printcap
> > 
> >     lp|Remote printer entry:\
> >                             :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\  # Local spool directory
> >                             :mx#0:\                      # Max file size 
>(0==unlimited)
> >                             :sh:                         # Surpress header page
> >                             :rm=satan:\                  # System that has the 
>physical printer
> >                             :rp=lp0:\                    # Remote printer name on 
>satan
> > 
> > 3. satan:/etc/printcap
> > 
> >     lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
> >                       :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> >                       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> >                       :if=/var/spool/lpd/myfilter:\
> >                       :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> >                       :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> >                       :pl#66:\
> >                       :pw#80:\
> >                       :pc#150:\
> >                       :mx#0:\
> >                       :sh:
> > 
> > 4. both machines can ping, scp, ssh, etc each other.
> > 
> > 5. using tcpdump:
> > 
> >    i determined that navalle isn't even trying to send packets to satan
> >    for printing.  whatever's going wrong, it's on navalle's side.
> > 
> > 6. logs:
> > 
> >    the reason why i'm posting this is that there's nothing in the logs for
> >    me to act on.  no error messages on either machine.  i can't even begin
> >    to guess what's going wrong.
> > 
> > 7.  on navalle, lpc status indicates:
> > 
> >         queuing is enabled
> >         printing is enabled
> >         no entries
> >         lp is ready and printing
> > 
> > 
> > everything looks great.   i'm stumped.  any advice?
> > 
> > pete
> > 
> 
> ---
> Mark K. Kim
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> 

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