need help setting up remote printing using lpr/lpd under Sarge

From: Paul E Condon (pecondon_at_mesanetworks.net)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:53:04 -0700
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    I have a small home lan in which all hosts are declared in /etc/hosts
    I want to make one of the hosts be a server of printing services, etc.
    Two hosts on the lan are Macs. I am able to give them print service
    using netatalk, and have had this working for a long time. Now I want
    to provide print services to two Sarge machines. The server is also
    a Sarge machine. I attempting to use lpr on all Sarge machines, and
    magicfilter on the server. The printer is a HP Laserjet 5MP. lpr is
    working on the server, but when I attempt to use it on a client host
    nothing visible happens, and I find a message in /var/spool/lpd/remote/status:

    waiting for cmn.lan.gnu to come up

    cmn.lan.gnu is the fully qualified name of the server host. But it is
    up because I telnet into cmn.lan.gnu and queue jobs to print locally
    without any problems.

    My /etc/hosts is (on all hosts)
    127.0.0.1 localhost
    192.168.0.11 big.lan.gnu big
    192.168.0.10 cmn.lan.gnu cmn
    192.168.0.12 gq.lan.gnu gq
    192.168.0.13 pauls.lan.gnu pauls
    192.168.0.14 carols.lan.gnu carols

    /etc/printcap on cmn is:
    lp|hplj5mp|HP Laserjet 5MP:\
            :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5mp:\
            :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
            :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps600-filter:\
            :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

    This was generated by magicfilterconfig.

    /etc/printcap on big is:
    lp|remote|HP Laserjet 5MP:\
            :lp= :\
            :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
            :rm=cmn.lan.gnu:rp=hplj5mp:lpr_bounce:\
            :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
            :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps600-filter:\
            :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

    This was generated by magicfilterconfig and then
    cleaned up slightly to make the rm and rp clauses
    look more like stuff I found in Printing-HOWTO.
    lpr_bounce is something that lprng seems to need,
    but I'm using lpr(old) and, anyway, removing it
    does not change the false indication that lpr is
    not running on cmn. The lp=<blank> clause can also
    be removed without affect.

    Also, /etc/hosts.lpd on cmn is:
    big.lan.gnu
    gq.lan.gnu

    I suspect I have not set up some security stuff
    correctly, but what is it?

    Suggestions? Ideas?

    Be aware that I have never done this kind of setup
    before, so go ahead and suggest the really "obvious".

    TIA 

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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