unable to setup printer

2002-10-29 Thread Jacobs, James
Title: unable to setup printer I have a new installation of RH 8.0. I am unable to setup a printer. I have tried running the printing option under system settings. I have also tried running printconf from the konsole as root still bombs out. I have checked to make sure that the appropriate

dns not working

2002-10-25 Thread Jacobs, James
Title: dns not working I'm testing Linux to see if it is a viable desktop os and have run in to a problem. I'm new to Linux and I can't seem to ping any client that is not in my host file. Shouldn't DNS handle that. I have the nameserver in resolve.conf and the correct wins server in

swat and nic

2002-10-18 Thread Jacobs, James
Title: swat and nic Installed RedHat 8.0. My network card continuously deactivates itself. I have only been able to re-activate it by rebooting. Problem two, I can not get swat working. I have edited /etc/service and created a swat file under xinetd.d directory, but still no swat. James