Re: Printer & localhost:631

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (18/08/05 10:36), Marie-Louise wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:17:15 +0100 using the keyboard as a tool Clive crafted
> these words:
>     |- > Host name lookup failure
>     |- 
>     |- You could try http://192.168.x.x:631 (using your IP address) or check
>     |- /etc/hosts to ensure you have something like:
>     |- 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
>     |- 
>     |- Regards
>     |- 
>     |- Clive
>     
> I have actually tried than and 127.0.0.1       localhost.ariestao 
> localhost and many combinations thereof.
> 
> I don't think this is fixable on this system for some reason. So I will have
> to keep printing with Windows and Mandrake.
> 
OK.  Have a look at:
http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html

and check that you've installed all the cupsys packages including
cupsys-bsd.

Regards

Clive

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