[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: Remote Printing]

[Kelly Scroggins]

Hello All,

My freind followed my suggestion to enable tcp wrappers on his gateway
mahcine.  He uses diald for a ppp conection to the Internet.

He is now experiencing a slight problem with printing accros his
network.

I have never set up or used printing on a Linux machine.  My freind has
succesfuly printed with his current configuration until recently.

Can anyone offer a possible solution the problem below?

Thanks,
Kelly

The Problem: ----------------------------------------------

   When I altered machine1's /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files as you
suggested, remote printing from machine2 to the print server, machine1,
quit working.  lpq says:

    $ lpq
    machine2: waiting for queue to be enabled on machine1
    Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total
Size
    1st    user1       40   /home/user1/letters/ENVELOPE-9.5i      185
bytes
    2nd    user1       41   (standard input)                      589
bytes
    3rd    root       42    ...                                  625
bytes
    4th    root       43    ...                                  625
bytes
    5th    user1       44   (standard input)                      493
bytes
    6th    user1       45   .80x66                                5346
bytes
    7th    user1       46   .80x66                                5346
bytes
    8th    user1       47   (standard input)                      16
bytes
    9th    user1       48   (standard input)                      19
bytes

    machine1: lpd: photo: Your host does not have line printer access

machine1:/etc/hosts.* files are:

    $ cat /etc/hosts.deny
    ALL: ALL

    $ cat /etc/hosts.allow
    ALL: 192.168.1.

machine1 is 192.168.1.1 and machine2 is 192.168.1.2.  Do I have to
explicitly allow remote connections to lpd on machine1?  If so, how?

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Thanks again,

Kelly