[ale] Q: User redirection of a remote printer back 'in my face'

[John M. Mills]

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Chris Hamilton wrote:

> > lpremote:\
> >         :lp=:\
> >         :rm=<THE IP ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOGIN>:\
> >             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- How do I identify this?
> >         :rp=lp:\
> >         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote_host:\
> >         :mx#0:\
> >         :lf=/usr/adm/messages:af=/dev/null:
> 
> <THE IP ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOGIN> would be the IP address of your
> machine at home.

Yes - that's what I don't know how to pass to '/etc/printcap' in any
halfway convenient fashion.

> Make sure that you have given yourself access (via
> /etc/hosts.lpd) to print to the spooler

Yes - that's easy since I am coming _from_ a well-known host, but I am not
sending _to_ a well-known host.  I don't want to edit /etc/printcap for
each remote login. &;-(

Thanks for replying -- jmm

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