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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