From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 6:32:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD82113A8 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 06:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07217; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:34:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902181434.JAA07217@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Why does lpd say I have no printer ? In-Reply-To: from Graeme Brown at "Feb 18, 99 09:43:54 am" To: graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk (Graeme Brown) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:34:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graeme Brown wrote, > My /etc/printcap contains > > #remote|sample remote printer:\ > lp|ljet4|ljet4_1|remote|remote printer:\ > :lp=:\ > :rm=freeb15:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: I'm no printcap expert, but I can compare this to ones that work for me. Why do you have that 'lp' line in there? One of my printers runs off of a remote machine (an SGI, not FreeBSD), and I do not have an 'lp' entry. Or do you need a 'rp' entry to tell the remote server which printer you are talking about? I think it is supposed to default to 'lp,' but give it a try. > I do not get any useful error messages in /var/log/lpd-errs > % tail -f /var/log/lpd-errs [snip] What about entries on the remote print server, freeb15? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message