[ale] lpd/lpr printing

[David Hamm]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've been working with the queues now for a while
and I'm still having the same problem even after I've inserted the rs=false
into the printcap.


 On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry Yu wrote:
>hi, David,
>
>I guess you are looking for 'man printcap'.
>excerpts:
>     rs         bool      false                  restrict remote users to
>                                                 those with local accounts
>
>
>I had same problem before. I checked the /etc/printcap generated by the
>printtool in control-panel. There is no 'rs' flag. If this flag is 'true'
>then you will have this kind of behavior. So, it seemed to me that RedHat
>had compiled its hacked lpd with 'rs' flag turned on. User 'root' from
>remote hosts should have no problem though, assume the remote host is in
>hosts.lpd.
>
>wondered whether  it works if you do sth in /etc/printcap as counter
>measure.
>
>just wanna help.
>
>Jerry Yu
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>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, David Hamm wrote:
>
>> I have an RS6000 that I need to get print data from and modify before it goes
>> to the printer.  I'm using a Redhat 5.1 box for the modification of the print
>> data.  The problem I have is that I can print from the RS6000 to the Linux box
>> just fine as long as I have an account on both systems.  If I try to print to
>> the Linux box from an account on the RS6000 that does not exist on the Linux
>> box the data gets spooled but the input filter never gets called and the print
>> data just vanishes.  I've also tried to find info on the hosts.lpd, hosts.allow
>> and hosts.equiv but can't seem to find a man page for them?  Where should I
>> look?
>> 
>> 
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>> David Hamm
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David Hamm
Systems Analyst
Imaging Technologies Services Inc.
email: dhamm at itserve.com
voice: 404-885-5905
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