Dave Bartmess said: > Well, the netstat -plant command gave me the following, which shows that > port 631 isn't being used... So why am I getting this "Address already in > use" message? ARGH Is it because I'm binding 631 to both 127.0.0.1 and > 10.0.0.3??? you could try lsof | grep 631 or lsof | grep ipp or netstat -an | grep 631 possible that the port is stuck in TIME_WAIT or something ...real pain in the ass when that happens nate