On Wed, 31 May 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> "Carey F. Cox" wrote:
> > No, the server is not able to resolve the client hostname. However, I
> > haven't seen any error messages on the server, just on the client. As most
> > workstation addresses (static ips reserved for servers only) are
> > dynamically allocated on this campus from one dhcp server, the possible
> > addresses would be quite large. I would have to use the domain name,
> > .lamar.edu. I have tried adding .lamar.edu, *.lamar.edu, 140.158., and
> > 140.158.*.* to /etc/hosts.lpd with no success. Further, documentation on
> > /etc/hosts.lpd is scarce. Am I doing this correctly?
>
> The little documentation that I've found leads me to believe that lpd need
> explicit IP addresses or resolvable hostnames. I've tried network numbers
> and network/netmask combos without success. There just doesn't seem to be a
> good solution for this.
Yes, documentation for lpd is scarce at best. I too went through every
combo I could think of and still nothing worked. I need to invest some time
into learning lprng, but that won't happen anytime soon.
>
> One possibility is to share the printer using Samba, which can use hostname,
> domain(?), network, or network/netmask to specify authorized client
> addresses. The client machines do not have to run Samba, but I don't know
> which packages are necessary. If the clients run Red Hat, their printtool
> makes it easy to configure lp as a network printer on a Samba server. I did
> exactly this to allow my home Linux box to print to an NT server in the
> office over a dialup PPP link. Works like a charm.
I did exactly this. The print server is also our samba server, so that
part was already in place and it took almost all of two minutes to configure
the client using printtool. The only downside is that a user id and
password are stored in a config file. This is primarily a one user
workstation however, so the risk should be minimal.
>
> Tony
>
Thanks,
Carey
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