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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
