yeah... if samba/whatever printing thing uses DNS, you should have your hostname in there too, with your ip. I dont know your network, but lets say you have a private net, and its the first host on it, and its a class C. You would have an entry something like: 192.168.0.0 darrough.clipper.net darrough
The format is: Your IP address Your FQDN Hostname (or alias so you dont have to use the FQDN) The Middle one doesn actually have to be a FQDN, but it usually is in a real network. Jamie On Saturday 01 December 2001 19:52, you wrote: > /etc/hosts says: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > If the name of my computer is jim.darrough, should that show here? > > Thanks, Jim > > On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 18:38, Bob Crandell wrote: > > Did you change the name of your computer? Make sure your /etc/hosts file > > says what lpd is looking for. > > > > On 2001.12.01 16:57 Jim Darrough wrote: > > > Hi Guys. > > > > > > I am trying to add a remote windows printer to my newly-installed > > > system, but when I boot, lpd won't load, and I get an error message > > > like this: "2001-12-01-16:56:13.421 Get_local_host: hostname 'xxxxx' > > > bad" > > > > > > What did I do wrong? lpd won't load, so I can't print anything. > > > > > > Regards, Jim Darrough
