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Re: How to export NeXT printer to Suns?

#1953
From: Mark Radleigh
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:46
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In article <13337@optilink.COM> brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood) writes:
> I have one NeXT with printer, running 2.1, amidst a sea of Suns.  I've
> been running for a long time with the NeXT's Network Type configured
> as Non-NetInfo Network, with NIS enabled.  The printer is a recent addition.
> 
> Local print works fine, but I can't get the printer exported.  If I just
> try a print operation from a remote Sun, I get:
> 
>  ...  /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer  
access
> 
> If I go to PrintManager, and try to enable Public access, I get an Alert box
> complaining "Printer cannot be exported to this same computer".
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Brad Yearwood   brad@optilink.com   {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad
> Petaluma, CA

    Don't know if this will cure it, but you might want to add a line SIMILAR
to the following in /etc/hosts.lpd:

------------------

/etc/hosts.lpd
+ +

------------------

    This tells the computer which hosts & who has access to the printer (The 
above allows access to everyone, everywhere).  Just a thought...

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Subject: Re: How to export NeXT printer to Suns?
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