Is there an alternate method of remote printing?

[Steve Dempsey]

In article <462 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett at crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:

> In article <568 at laic.UUCP>, root at nova (The Root of all evil) writes:
> 
> You said it. the address root at 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	<barnett at crdgw1.ge.com>


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