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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:25:56 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lpd setup for remote printer
Message-ID:  <p06002005bbb34f50be48@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <3F8D8F1D.80703@twcny.rr.com>
References:  <3F8D8F1D.80703@twcny.rr.com>

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At 2:17 PM -0400 10/15/03, Tom Parquette wrote:
>
>I'm trying to configure printing on the "local" machine
>(Stargate) to point to lp on P3R-272.
>
>This is what I currently have coded in Stargate's printcap
>file:
>
>lp|HP2000 on P3R-272:\
>         :sh:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :rm=P3R-272.Tom.Parquette.name:

If you do not have 'rp=' specified, then (iirc) lpd will
assume you mean a local printer.  Try adding    rp=lp:
to the above printcap entry.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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