It is now working after add ip of viao to /etc/hosts. However, if this host
obtain ip from dhcp server. It ips may change everytime, in this case, the
host may not be able to use the remote printer if it is allocated with a
different ip.

david Kwok
----- Original Message -----
From: davidkwok <dkwok@iware.com.au>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: lpd: Host nae for your address (192.168.1.232) unknown


> My sony notebook machine is i386 with NetBSD-1.5.1_BETA2.
>
> It uses dhclient to obtain its ip and default gateway.
>
> While trying to set up remote printing so that printing can be sent to
> remote Linux print server (ip 192.168.1.233). I 'v got the above errors.
> I have set up /etc/hosts file to record:
>
> 192.168.1.232     viao.iware.com.au viao
>
> This does not work. In addition I don't think this is correct because
> dhclient would obtain different ip address depending upon what the dhcp
> server grants to a client.
>
> The local machine printcap is:
>
> lp:\
> :lp=:rm=mig:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
>
> On the remote I have an entry in /etc/hosts.lpd
>
> 192.168.1.232
>
>
> Could anyone give me some pointers?
>
>