Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!boulder!ccncsu!longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu!steved From: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Is there an alternate method of remote printing? Keywords: hosts.lpd Message-ID: <1963@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 28 May 89 21:13:06 GMT References: <462@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <568@laic.UUCP> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 32 In article <462@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes: > In article <568@laic.UUCP>, root@nova (The Root of all evil) writes: > > You said it. the address root@nova.laic.uucp is nonsense. > laic.uucp is not a domain. Ditto. I didn't even try to mail because this address is bogus. > >I am trying to set up a print queue from machine A that prints on > >machine B. I do not want to put machine A into hosts.equiv on machine B. > >Machine B is a Sun running SunOS 3.4. Is there a way to do this (such > >as a filter that does rsh) or am I stuck? > > create the file /etc/hosts.print. Put a plus sign in it. > echo "+" >/etc/hosts.print > > edit the file /usr/lib/lpd so that "/etc/hosts.equiv" is now "/etc/hosts.print" Whoah! How about /etc/hosts.lpd? Did someone at SUN remove this nice feature? The file contains names of hosts that you allow printer access to. > Bruce G. Barnett Steve Dempsey, Center for Computer Assisted Engineering Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 +1 303 491 0630 INET: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu, dempsey@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu UUCP: boulder!ccncsu!longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu!steved, ...!ncar!handel!dempsey