In a galaxy not too far away, Paul spoke on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 05:01:58PM -0500: > Hi everybody, > > I am having problems getting my printing working. > When I try to print I get this error message > > Hi everybody, > > I am having a problem getting my printer working. > I have upgraded from Corel Linux 1.2 to a full Woody distro. > The printing that was setup in corel broke which I expected so I > installed printtool and the necessary dependent files.I can create a > printer > but if I try to print I get Get_local_host: hostname > 'paulmt.sympatico.ca' bad. Which printer spooler do you use? LPRng? Could you post your /etc/printcap - it seems you are somehow trying to print to a remote printer....
> I am using an ADSL client called roaring penguin which uses PPPOE.The > name of the > machine is paulmt and the ADSL provider is sympatico.ca. > > If anybody could help me it would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > /stefan.