Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
Matthew Seaman wrote: Woah! Reinstalling the whole OS to fix a printer problem is way overkill. The /dev/null entry in /etc/printcap is just a place-holder. Normally that entry would contain the device used to communicate to a locally attached printer. However, because you're using samba,

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gerard Seibert wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Ummm... given that there's no 'rm' capability in this printcap I guess you must be using Samba to communicate with the remote windows printer. If so, then that printcap looks fine. Well, setting lp=/dev/null seems to cause some complaints, but

Port Not Available

2006-08-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
Matthew Seaman wrote: Ummm... given that there's no 'rm' capability in this printcap I guess you must be using Samba to communicate with the remote windows printer. If so, then that printcap looks fine. Well, setting lp=/dev/null seems to cause some complaints, but that should just be

Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have not been able to get printing working on this PC. By accident. I noticed that the ::1 port does not seem to be available. I tried this command: ~ $ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-08-08 14:59, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to get printing working on this PC. By accident. I noticed that the ::1 port does not seem to be available. I tried this command: ~ $ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1:

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gerard Seibert wrote: I have not been able to get printing working on this PC. By accident. I noticed that the ::1 port does not seem to be available. I tried this command: ~ $ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1...

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
Matthew Seaman wrote: Only if you enable IPv6. ie. you put: ipv6_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. That will cause each of your interfaces to have at least a link-local IPv6 address configured, and lo0 will get the ::1 address applied to it. See /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gerard Seibert wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Only if you enable IPv6. ie. you put: ipv6_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. That will cause each of your interfaces to have at least a link-local IPv6 address configured, and lo0 will get the ::1 address applied to it. See

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Schuele
On 08/08/06 14:46, Gerard Seibert wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Only if you enable IPv6. ie. you put: ipv6_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. That will cause each of your interfaces to have at least a link-local IPv6 address configured, and lo0 will get the ::1 address applied to it. See

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
Matthew Seaman wrote: Hmmm... what does: ifconfig lo0 return? You should actually see two IPv6 addresses configured, like so: happy-idiot-talk:~:% ifconfig lo0 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6

Re: Port Not Available

2006-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gerard Seibert wrote: OK, the ifconfig lo0 looks like this: ~ $ ifconfig lo0 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 No problems there. The