ping

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:13:37AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> I am trying to set up a fourth computer to print to a remote printer. I 
> guess I know how to do this now, but I can't ping computer1 from computer4.
> 
> The hosts.allow file (computer1) looks fine.
> 
> # hosts.allow   This file describes the names of the hosts which are
> #               allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
> #               by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
> all : allow : all
> 
> The hosts.deny file has no entries.
> 
> What can I try next?
> 
> Computer4 is on the Internet (through router>cable modem) and can ping 
> the other two computers and the router. It just can't ping computer1 
> (which has the printer connected to it).

hosts.deny/hosts.allow only affect programs that use those files (which
is very few, mainly those that use tcp wrappers).  In general it has
nothing to do with anything.

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