[geeks] Am I a complete idiot or...

Mike Meredith hmv at meredithm.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Jul 17 13:11:17 CDT 2002


On Tuesday 16 July 2002 19:04, James Sharp wrote:
> > Are you sure that the banner page is coming from lpd and not being
> > added by the hp printer ? It's been a while since I've had to set
>
> No, I'm not positive....but I'm pretty sure, since I'm getting the
> same banner page on my LJ4 and on my DeskJet, each connected to a
> different JetDirect print server.

Sounds suspiciously like it might be lpd then. Have you tried sticking
the 'sh' flag somewhere other than at the end of the last line ?

> > I think I fixed the problem by adding a clause to the TFTPed

It looks like my old config files have been edited to cause the relevant
bit to disappear (I don't do printers anymore ... never liked the damm
things anyway). But telneting into one allows you to turn them off with
:-

	banner: 0

I suspect putting the same thing into the TFTP config file will also
work.



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