Re: FW: Diary of a minimalist desktop -Complete

[Tim <timmp3_(_at_)_yahoo_(_dot_)_com>]

>   3) Make sure that the spool dir for each printer
> in /etc/printcap exists
>      with proper permissions and ownership (this is
> not automatic).
> 
>      e.g. From example above, this means you need to
> make sure that the
>           directory /var/spool/output/HP2500CM-PS
> exists with proper
>           owns/perms.
> 

What are the proper permissions?  I googled for this
and found the answer for a linux setup on some obsure
website.  It worked for me but since I'm no UNIX
expert, I always wonder if the following permissions
were secure.  Below is what I did:

mkdir /var/spool/output/myprintername
chown daemon /var/spool/output/myprintername
chmod 775 /var/spool/output/myprintername

in my /etc/printcap file I had the following:

lp|myprintername:\
  
:lp=:rm=192.168.50.100:rp=auto:sd=/var/spool/output/myprintername:\
   :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:mx#0:

This was for a printer with an internal jetdirect
card.

Also, I couldn't get this to work from my windows 2000
machine unless I added my computer name to /etc/hosts
like this:

192.168.50.200 mywin2k.company.com mywin2k

Even if I had a dns record (and bind running) on the
same machine acting as the print server, I still had
to add that to the /etc/hosts file for it to work. 
Note that I did add mywin2k to /etc/hosts.lpd.  I
looked at the man pages as well. Did anyone have a
similar problem and know why?


	
		
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