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. > >Is lpd running on the lp server? port blocked? > >Sam MacDonald said: > > >>I'm pounding this laptop in to the ground using my fingers :o) >> >>I have a printer on my home network, >> one is connected to W2K server and shared as "Deskjet" >> >>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% / >> >>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: >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list