On Tuesday 21 August 2001 21:13, civileme wrote: > On Monday 20 August 2001 16:48, Judith Miner wrote: > > Civileme wrote concerning my printing problem: > > >> Is your firewall by any chance blocking port 631? > > > > You need 631 open, at least on localhost, for cups to work. >> > > > > How would I find out? I set up my firewall through Mandrake Control > > Center, Firewall section. I answered "no" to all the questions because > > my computer is not any kind of server and is not connected to any other > > computer (aside from when I'm online). > > --Judy Miner > > urpmi nmapfe > > then when nmap is on your menu fire it up and do a straight scan of > 127.0.0.1 for open ports. > > Civileme I had this problem ie browser couldn't connect to localhost:631. In my case the reason was that cups wasn't running. I dont know how it got stopped but when I restarted it fom Control Centre>System>Services eveything was fine. You could check this in case it helps. -- Peter Watson
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