From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: According to the SAP, you should add remote hosts that you wish to have printing privileges to /etc/hosts.lpd. But this does not work. It can be made to work by adding the line ACCEPT SERVICE=X REMOTEHOST=</etc/hosts.lpd to /etc/lpd.perms, before the line REJECT SERVICE=X NOT SERVER The documentation should be changed to note this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-sap(EN)-8.0-HTML-RHI (2002-10-01T17:12-0400) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try adding hostname or IP to /etc/hosts.lpd. 2. Try printing from that host. It doesn't work. 3. Add the line referred to above to /etc/lpd.perms, and restart lpd. 4. You can now print from the remote host. Additional info:
Good catch. It has been fixed in the manual's sources, and the version on our website has been updated.