lpr question

[Doug McDonald]

I have a question about the "lpr" program. I am trying to use the
program of that name that comes with the NCSA Telnet distribution for the
PC to print files from my PC to a printer on our MIPS 120.

When I first tried it it refused to work because the name of my machine
was not in the general host table on the MIPS. This was fixed and now
that message is gone (and, for example, I can ftp to my PC while
logged onto the MIPS (i.e. tell the MIPS "ftp lyra", lyra being my PC,
or use the full four part name of my machine.)

Then it said something like "your host is not an authorized ftp host".
The .doc file for lpr on the PC says to make in entry with the 
Internet name of my PC in a file "/etc/hosts.lpd" on the MIPS - and
so does the man page for lpd on the MIPS. We tried that. It doesn't
work. 

Another symptom is that no matter what printer I specify with -P
on the PC it seems to be trying the same printer on the MIPS.

Anyone have any ideas?

Doug McDonald
(mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu)