[PLUG] hosts file and dhcp
Bill Barry
barryb at proaxis.com
Wed Apr 24 07:13:55 UTC 2002
You might consider using the cups printing system http://www.cups.org/ .
It allows you to control access by username /password as well as
ip address. That way you don't have to know the ip address of the client
for authentication.
Bill Barry
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:38:14PM -0700, briand at aracnet.com wrote:
>
> pluggers,
>
> I'm trying to allow another computer on my network to access a printer
> and apparently I need to set-up a hosts.allow file.
>
> The computer is using dhcp, so I'm wondering how you go about figuring
> out what ip address corresponds to the hostname when it's possible
> that the ip address will change.
>
> Also, exactly how many copies of lpd should run on a given system ?
> Every time I run lpd on one of my machines (the remote one) two copies
> end up running.
>
> On my server only one copy runs. I'm suspecting that the remote
> machine is running two copies because one handles the remote printer
> and one handles the local printer. Is that right ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
>
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