chauvin@eemips.tamu.edu (Todd Chauvin) (06/07/90)
Hello! I'm having trouble getting lpd to allow remote hosts to access the printer queues on our rc3240 (risc/os 4.30). Simply listing the remote hostname in /etc/hosts.lpd (I also tried /etc/hosts.equiv) does not work. The rc3240 returns an error message of the form: eemips: /bsd43/bin/lpd: apple: Your host does not have line printer access The only thing that works is creating an /etc/hosts.equiv containing the single character '+' (/etc/hosts.lpd with a single '+' does NOT work) On a large network like ours, this sort of wildcard access to our machine in unacceptable. Does anyone know what the problem is? Is this a problem with lpd? Is there more to authorizing a host for remote printer access than putting their hostname in /etc/hosts.lpd? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We are getting a lot a pressure from our faculty to get this working and hope that we do not have to "wait for 4.50" Thanks, Todd Chauvin chauvin@eemips.tamu.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering chauvin@tamtcsl.bitnet Texas A&M University
rogerk@spdcc.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (06/07/90)
In article <5665@helios.TAMU.EDU> chauvin@eemips.tamu.edu (Todd Chauvin) writes: >I'm having trouble getting lpd to allow remote hosts to access the >printer queues on our rc3240 (risc/os 4.30). Simply listing the >remote hostname in /etc/hosts.lpd (I also tried /etc/hosts.equiv) does not work. /etc/hosts.lpd is not at all intended to work. We do not support hosts.lpd in releases prior to 4.50. >The only thing that works is creating an /etc/hosts.equiv containing the >single character '+' (/etc/hosts.lpd with a single '+' does NOT work) Are you running nameserver? Some applications require domainized hostnames, and others do not, in pre-4.50 releases. Be sure you have your host "foo" in hosts.equiv as both "foo" and "foo.tamu.edu". -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 928 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I want to live where it's always Saturday." -- Guadalcanal Diary