Subject: Re: how to communicate with lpd -s secure mode server ???
To: John Refling <johnr@imageworks.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/16/2001 15:43:23
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, John Refling wrote:

: I see that netbsd 1.5 starts /usr/sbin/lpd in secure mode (-s)
: by default, during which time it only takes commands from Unix
: domain sockets instead of the usual tcp socket.

: So the question is, how does one inform the client machine that
: the server is running in secure mode?  Must be in the printcap
: for each particular printer.  But where/how???

Unix domain sockets are only accessible on the local machine (they are *file
sockets*).  You have to run without -s to accept network requests.

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