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From: chauvin@eemips.tamu.edu (Todd Chauvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: lpd troubles
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Date: 7 Jun 90 03:54:42 GMT
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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