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Remote printing, lpd, etc....

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From: Aaron
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 23:24
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First:  A word of thanks to all those who helped me through my sendmail.cf
question, and also those who gave me input on my DNS prob.  Those two
problems are history.

The only thing currently holding me up is remote printing.  What I have is two
RT's one has a printer, the other doesn't.  They are not on the same
subnet and are in different parts of the building.  Both have 8 bit
ungerman-bass ethernet cards.

I have define my printserver host, added the remote queue to the host that 
does not have the printer (so it knows to print elsewhere), and added
the host to my printservers host.lpd.  

It almost works....I use 'print rp0 /etc/qconfig' as my test and it
cause a new lpd daemon to start, but then it just hangs there and 10
mins later I get an error on the printserver saying that the lpd lost
it's connection.  I get this same message on the printserver if I cancel
the job on the remote machine.

The only time it works is when I use a very small file.  As soon as I get
into a big file it does the above.

This symptom (now that I think of it) happens when I ftp from RT to
RT also....binaries never come through and only small text files will,
no large text files come through at all.  FTP to other sites work
fine.

So if anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate your insight. 

Thanks in advance,

Aaron
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From: acyoung@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Aaron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Remote printing, lpd, etc....
Message-ID: <1992Apr8.192430.5513@newstand.syr.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:24:30 GMT
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