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- From: mike@maria.wustl.edu
- Subject: Need help setting up rlpdaemon (probably)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 7:13:42 CST
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- Situation:
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- One HP 9000/700 series machine with an HP Laserjet III attached directly.
- People can print just fine to the local printer. I want a few other HPs
- (all 9000/700 series, HP-UX 8.07) to be able to print to this printer. I
- set up rlpdaemon to run out of /etc/rc, adding a properly-permitted and
- owned .rhosts file in (I believe) /usr/spool/lp. After a reboot, the
- daemon fires up with no problems, and it appears that everything is set
- at the box-with-the-printer's end. I run SAM on the remote clients, adding
- a remote printer setup. The scheduler is turned on. The printer is
- enabled. lpstat looks happy. Then I try to print and run into a...
-
- Problem:
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- I get an error message from the printing "client" to the effect of
- "waiting for box-with-printer to come up".
- Well, the printer box *is* up -- I can ping/telnet to it just fine.
- rlpdaemon appears to be running just fine. Nothing looks out of the
- ordinary, apart from the fact that I can't print. So I...
-
- Tried:
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- * Running rlpdaemon from inetd instead of /etc/rc. Same problem.
- * Configuring the clients by hand instead of SAM. Same problem.
- * Specifying an IP address instead of hostname for remote box. Same problem.
-
- I'm out of ideas. If anyone could post any pointers, I'd appreciate it
- muchly. I did HP-HP printing once a while back and never ran into this
- problem, so I'm fairly sure there's something real trivial I'm just
- missing. But I have no clue as to what it is. As I RTFM, I get the
- distinct feeling that I'm doing things right as far as I can tell.
-
- Help!
-
- -Mike
- mike@maria.wustl.edu
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