[lug] Remote printing?
Scott A. Herod
herod at interact-tv.com
Tue Mar 20 14:09:37 MST 2001
"D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> >
> > Are you denying access to lpd in some other way (/etc/hosts.deny or
> > ipchains)?
>
> I would add another suggestion along this line...can the one machine
> telnet to the printer machine? Is it in hosts.allow (this could be
> temporarily added for testing, then restart inetd or xinetd)?
Yes, I allow telnet because the machines are isolated and it works
fine back and forth between the two. I even tried telneting to
the printer port but got an error similar to
lpd: lp: Malformed from address
Connection closed by foreign host.
Should that be able to work?
Scott
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