Re: Printer & localhost:631

[Charlie <aries-tao@bigpond.com>]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:18:27 +0100 using the keyboard as a tool Clive crafted
these words:

    |- 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
    |- 
    |- -- 
    |- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ...
    |- ...strategies for business
    
Thanks for that Clive, I have all those packages installed and a few extra. It
is a good page, but I will have to boot into windows and print from there. I
don't have a network, just a laptop running on solar power. I live in the
bush.

Thanks again,
Charlie.


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