On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 05:47:49PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote:
> Holy Cow!
>
> Ron, you da man! I can print over the network now with the
> /etc/hosts.lpd in the format you suggested. Not to look a gift a horse
> in the mouth, but why is it that the format "ip shortname fqdn" doesn't
> work, but the format "shortname" does? Thanks again,
I guess it's because that's the expected format for the file. I've
just spend 10 minutes skimming HOWTOs and man pages and none of them
seems to directly explain the file format, so it's not hard to fail to
get it right !
Fred
> Ron Golan wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote:
> > > Ron Golan wrote:
> > > > You need to have the hostnames of all hosts on your network which are
> > > > allowed to print in the file /etc/hosts.lpd
> > > Yes,
> > > I have all hosts listed in /etc/hosts.lpd. Like this:
> > > 192.168.1.11 weaver weaver.emeraldbiostructures.com
> > > 192.168.1.12 ripley ripley.emeraldbiostructures.com
> > > 192.168.1.13 jonesy jonesy.emeraldbiostructures.com
> > > on all machines. Thanks,
> > instead, try in this form
> > weaver
> > ripley
> > jonesy
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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