On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:37, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Friday 15 June 2001 08:37, I was honoured by a missive from
> Sridhar
>
> Dhanapalan that said :
> > > > Try pointing your browser to http://localhost:631/ and
> > > > configuring your printer from there.
> > >
> > > When I do this, even as root, I get an error screen
> > > Forbidden
> > > You don't have permission to access the resource on this
> > > server.
> >
> > Do you have a third-party firewall going? The Mandrake and
> > Bastille firewalls should be okay, but others may block the page
> > (which loads off your own system (localhost).
>
> Dont know that I have ;-(
>
> Is there a simple way to find out ?
If you don't know than chances are you don't have one installed.
> > Try replacing "localhost" in the URL to your actual hostname. You
> > can type "hostname" at a terminal to find out what it is. Use
> > Netscape as your browser, just to make sure. I get "Connection
> > refused" whenever I try to use Konqueror, but Netscape and Opera
> > deal with it well.
>
> Tried that, under Netscape; same result.
>
> > If this still doesn't work, then perhaps you don't have a loopback
> > interface installed. Try typing
> >
> > /sbin/ifconfig lo
> >
> > at a terminal. If you get nothing then you need to configure a
> > loopback device.
>
> I tried this, got:
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:4722 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:4722 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> So it seems to be there.
Yes, it is there. Open the Mandrake Control Centre and choose System
-> Services. Make sure cups is running.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
