The other machine is working fine, I'm going to byte the bullet and 
install samba on by debian box.

Wayne Johnson wrote:

>lpd does not use SMB, nor SSH, nor RSH.  It has it's own port and protocol.
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>Is lpd running on the lp server?  port blocked?
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>Sam MacDonald said:
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>>I'm pounding this laptop in to the ground using my fingers :o)
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>>I have a printer on my home network,
>>    one is connected to W2K server and shared as "Deskjet"
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>>I can print from my Redhat box, I'm running Samba on that machine.
>>    so I know Linux can print using that printer.
>>My Debian laptop does not have Samba installed, I'm not sure I want to
>>install it as it takes almost 12 megabytes of disk space.
>>"df" says
>>filesystem   1k-blocks   Used    Available   Use%   Mounted on
>>/dev/hda1   170274      86777    74706      54%      /
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>>I would need a printcap local  that looks like this to print to a remote
>> printer.
>>
>># REMOTE djet695
>>        :lp=:\**
>>        :rm="machine":\
>>        :rp="printer":\
>>	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
>>        :mx#0:\
>>	:sh:
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>>I get "lpr: cannot open remote"
>>	the remote hosts.allow has the machine name in it.
>>	the remote hosts has the ip and name in it.
>>I must be missing something...
>>
>>do I need an entry to "ssh"?
>>
>>Sam.
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