Remote connections to LPD problems

From: Salvador Ramirez (sram@profc.udec.cl)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 13:53:57 EDT


Hello,

   I wanted to share a printer connected to an alphaserver with tru64 unix
5.1, for what I put both on /etc/hosts.equiv and /etc/hosts.lpd the
hostnames of the allowed clients. Every name there is properly set also on
/etc/hosts. Now from one of those hosts (a redhat linux 7.2) I configured a
remote printer pointing to my alphaserver but it doesn't print.

   I tried to debug the problem on the alphaserver with the option -l of
lpd to leave a log of connections but lpd doesn't write a log. I tried:
"/usr/lbin/lpd -l /tmp/log.lpd" but /tmp/log.lpd was never written. To
ensure that lpd indeed receive a connection I did a telnet to the port 515
of my alphaserver and the log was not written. I tried also from others
computers and nothing happens. Anybody knows what might be provoking this
problem?

Thanks in advance,

---sram
     "Don't listen to what I say; listen to what I mean!" --Feynman
Salvador Ramirez Flandes PROFC, Universidad de Concepcion, CHILE
http://www.profc.udec.cl/~sram mailto:sram@profc.udec.cl



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