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From: rogerk@spdcc.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: lpd troubles
Message-ID: <3124@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 90 08:02:57 GMT
References: <5665@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Organization: Mips Computer Systems
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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".

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ROGER B.A. KLORESE      MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.      phone: +1 408 720-2939
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