lpd setup for remote printer

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 2:17 PM -0400 10/15/03, Tom Parquette wrote:
>
>I'm trying to configure printing on the "local" machine
>(Stargate) to point to lp on P3R-272.
>
>This is what I currently have coded in Stargate's printcap
>file:
>
>lp|HP2000 on P3R-272:\
>         :sh:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :rm=P3R-272.Tom.Parquette.name:

If you do not have 'rp=' specified, then (iirc) lpd will
assume you mean a local printer.  Try adding    rp=lp:
to the above printcap entry.

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