When printing via LPR and LPD, this error means that no LPD printer was found on the system receiving the print job. To fix the error, you’ll need to do one or more of these things:

• Start the Line Printer Daemon on the print server. Without the LPD daemon, of course, it can’t receive print jobs.
• Verify that the client has the correct hostname or IP address for the print server, and the correct name for the printer on the server.
• Add each system to the other system’s hosts file.
• If you are using SCO UNIX as the client, the print server must also be listed in /etc/hosts.equiv.

Once these items are verified, LPD printing should work properly.

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