On Tuesday 18 March 2003 03:11, Bill Mullen wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 05:45, W. Kasberg wrote:
> > When (re)starting cups it changes the servername witk the message:
> > --
> > WARNING: Inserted "ServerName 172.16.150.1" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> >          (to make broadcasting of printer queue info working correctly)
> > ---
> > the 172.16.150.1 ist the NAT for my VMware3.2. I think the servername
> > should be 10.0.0.10.
> > The problem is:
> > If I am connected to Internet via DSL I cannot print (kprinter does not
> > find/show any printer).
> > After shutting down DSL I can print normally.
> > My /etc/hosts shows:
> > 10.0.0.10               localhost.localdomain localhost
> > 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
> >
> > What could be the reason?
>
> Well, you definitely shouldn't have the 10.0.0.10 line as above - the
> 127.0.0.1 line is correct, and should be the only localhost line, AFAIK.
> I would suggest something on the order of:
>
> 127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain localhost
> 10.0.0.10     nickname.you.made.up nickname
>
> And then set the box's hostname in /etc/sysconfig/networking thusly:
>
> HOSTNAME="nickname.you.made.up"
> DOMAINNAME="you.made.up"
>

I made the changes proposed above.
And it works ok!

Thanks!

W. Kasberg

> If need be, you could also add a line:
>
> DHCP_HOSTNAME="whatever.your.isp.calls.your.system"
>
> if your dhcp-client/dhcpcd requests (to your ISP) bomb without it ... if
> you don't use dhcp for connecting to DSL, this bit doesn't apply to you.
>
> Then execute at a root prompt:
>
> service network restart
> service cups restart
>
> This will probably sort out cups; let us know if it does. You can also
> set the hostname explicitly in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file, as the
> error indicates, but you should fix /etc/hosts anyway, as cups is not
> all that may choke (to one extent or another) on the current setup.


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