This one time, at band camp, Norbert Preining said: (Friday 28 March 2003 12:01 am) > * My /etc/hosts now just contains > 127.0.0.1 my.host.name localhost > Nothing worked, kprinter always crashes. Try this combination -- it was the only one that worked for me: Assume your computer is called "computer" and your domain is "mydomain.com" 127.0.0.1 computer localhost computer.mydomain.com localhost.mydomain.com HTH, Warren