On 8 Jan 2001, dipankar pradip mitra wrote:

> hi linux lovers
> I want to print from my linux box to a printer  attached on windows98 m/c
> for this installed a samba, then from printtool installed SMB printer, but when i m 
>trying to print it is giving me error
> Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available
> can any one help me

looks more like an network config problem. Is your pc given a definete IP?
Then put that in your /etc/hosts

it should look something like

*.*.*.*         your_pc.domain  your_pc
127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain
<and other entries if required>

sreangsu


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