On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 12:48:47PM +0100, Cecile Hebert wrote > On 5 Nov 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > > > In the past I've been able to print from one Debian 2.1 box to another > > Debian 2.1 box without difficulty. However I recently reinstalled > > Debian 2.1 on the server machine, and can't do any printing from > > remote machines unless I'm using Samba. I'd like to know what's going on > > so I can get back to a "normal" configuration involving just lpr/lpd. > > I've exactly the same problem and I am quite deseperated. > > Only users who have an account on the debian machine hosting the printer > can print on it. I've checked that the host wanting to print are > correctly listed in /etc/hosts.equiv and /etc/hosts.lpd > > Those files should only contains a list of all hosts wanting to print, > one oht per line, isn't it ??? >
If you are using the "lprng" package you should also look at /etc/lpd.perms, which allows many access control options, including requiring users to have accounts on the print server. man 5 lpd.perms for details. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
