What does `hostname --fqdn` say? If it doesn't read back a fully qualified 
domain name, like a website address, then you need to change some 
settings. I forget how Mandrake has that stuff set up though.

Spencer

On Monday 04 November 2002 12:39 am, John Tucker wrote:
> Ever since I installed linux I've had printer problems printing via a
> network and so I decided to make it a local printer to see what that
> did. However, it still doesn't seem to work.  I have  the printer on
> parallel port #0 (/dev/lp0) and I know that's a node and so I did an ls
> -l lp0 and it came up with printers or something similar to that.  In
> other words, I am assuming the node is valid.  If my printer is plugged
> into LPT1, which it is, does anyone have any ideas why it wouldn't be
> working?  I installed the printer using Mandrake Control Center and it
> just went through a wizard and set the printer up for me correctly (or
> so I thought).
>
> However, I think I have a good idea what's going on.  Although CUPS
> starts up fine and all, lpd doesn't.  It does start up and shows the
> "OK" message by it but it tells me that my Get_local_host: is a bad host
> name.  However, I really don't know what to change it to and even if I
> did I don't know how to fix it.  I figured that setting up the printer
> through PrinterDrake would've taken care of all that for me but I guess
> it didn't, or it might be confused since I used to have the printer
> installed on the network????  Is that at all reasonable?
>
> Any suggestions or help you could give me to fixing my problem would be
> much appreciated.
>
> John Tucker
>
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