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From: kelso@gwusun.gwu.edu (John Kelso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: yp & remote printing
Keywords: yp lp
Message-ID: <1468@bleen.gwusun.gwu.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 89 14:48:17 GMT
Reply-To: kelso@gwusun.gwu.edu (John Kelso)
Organization: The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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I have discovered what I hope is not a "feature" of remote printing
on HP 9000's.  I apologize for the long-winded description.

Here is our setup:

Sparko is an 835-SE, with a serial printer.  It is a yellow pages
client of domain gwyp.  It is using netgroups; it's /etc/hosts.equiv
file has the single line "+@all".  the all netgroup has entries that
say (sparko,,gwyp) (peabody,,gwyp), among others.

Peabody is a 370 that wants to print using sparko's printer.  It is
also a yellow pages client of domain gwyp, uses netgroups, and has a
/etc/hosts.equiv file with the single line "+@all".

The yp master is a Sun.  It's /etc/hosts.equiv also is the single line
"+@all". It has a printer that both sparko and peabody can use
remotely.

Here's the problem:

When I print a file on peabody that should go to sparko's printer, and
then issue a lpstat -t command, I see, among other things:

printer hp7580 now sending hp7580-4 to sparko.
printer queue for hp7580
peabody: waiting for sparko to come up

If I go and edit sparko's /etc/hosts.equiv file to include the line
"peabody", and issue another print command, everything goes across
correctly.

This seems to tell me that the remote printer software on the HP
doesn't know about yp netgroups. (Other commands, such as rlogin, seem
to understand netgroup.)

Any comments or advice?  Many thanks in advance.

John
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