[ILUG] remote print failure

[Sean]

Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
> OK, some progress. Turned out some asshole had been editing printcap
> for me while I was away. Duh.
> 
> Now the jobs get as far as my Linux host, but lp is saying (in
> /var/log/messages) "job could not be printed" but failing to say
> why. It's a PS printer, set up as the sole PS print device, and
> local printing works perfectly. But sending it a PS file from
> another machine on the net causes this error message and no print.
> There's no size limit, and the hostnames are all in hosts.lpd
> 

   giveus a peek at your /etc/printcap file..
   are the hosts in hosts.allow ?   (not needed though I think)

> ///Peter
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Sean.
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