Default printer with NIS users

[ssm0904 at caen.sc.philips.com]

Have you something like that in your /etc/passwd : +:::: ? Or have you a special NIS configuration ? What do you put in your nsswitch.conf ?



Helge Blischke wrote:
> ssm0904 at caen.sc.philips.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I am using CUPS 1.1.19-13 with Fedora Core 1. On a desktop computer, I set up a cups server and add  one printer that it's the default. Now when I want to print something whith a local user like root or bob : no problems. But with NIS users, it doen't work. When I want to print something, I have the error message : "lpr: error - no default destination available" and when I want to show the default printer with lpstat -d : "no system default destination". I think it's because the NIS users are no
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your respond.
> > Bye.
>
> It must be something different. I'm printing as NIS users on various
> systems (some Linuxes, Solaris, UnixWare) without problems.
>
> Helge
>
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