Can't print from remote lpd (Solaris) box

Daniel Rawson daniel.rawson at take.this.out.asml.com
Fri Jul 2 10:29:03 PDT 2004


daniel.rawson at take!this!out!asml.com wrote:
> I have a Solaris 9 (Intel) box with CUPS installed and working.  I can print from the local box and from my Windows box via samba.
> 
> However, I can't print from a remote Solaris (SPARC) box.
> 
> The printers.conf entry on the remote computer looks like:
> 
> dj:\
>         :bsdaddr=hostname,dj810,Solaris:
> 
> If I attempt to print to this printer, I get a message that looks like:
> 
> $ Jul  2 11:39:38 <hostname> lp[2088]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
> 
>         Message from root on <hostname> (???) [ Fri Jul  2 11:39:38 ] ...
> 
>         Error transfering print job 241
>                  check queue for (dj810@<remote-host>)
> <EOT>
> 
> There's NOTHING in the cups log files when this happens, even in debug2 mode.
> 
fyi, cups-lpd IS in inetd.conf, but I'm not sure how to check if it launched . . . .:

printer  stream  tcp  nowait lp  /opt/sfw/cups/lib/daemon/cups-lpd   cups-lpd

Dan




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