CUPS can not talk to LPD server?

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Wed Feb 16 12:42:36 PST 2005


George,

you should not need to have to supply the lpd portnumber.

a url of lpd://ipaddress/printqueuename should do it.

make sure that netstat -natp shows lpd listening on external interface and not just on 127.0.0.1:515

cheers


> I have a printer (HP4345PS) set up on Redhat 9 with LPRng.
>
> Modified /etc/lpd.perms, the only changes made is comment out
> # REJECT SERVICE=X NOT SERVER
>
> In client machine running CUPS, setup printer with
> lpd://ipaddress:515/HP4345PS
>
> When printing test page, nothing prints, in error_log
> Network host xxx is busy, down, or unreachable.
>
> Tried to ping lpdserver from client machine, works fine.
>
> I also trid to add ACCEPT SERVICE=X REMOTEIP=192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 and
> restart lpd. Still the same, CUPS can not talk to lpd server.
>
> Is there anything I missed?
> Thanks
>
>





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