Double check that /etc/hosts has an alias for localhost...

something like this

127.0.0.1       locahost.localdomain    localhost


That way, localhost is resolved back to 127.0.0.1 the same as
localhost.localdomain.


give it a shot, (I am assuming that you have host.conf set to: order
hosts,bind as well, so it checks hosts first.)


rgds

Frank


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Colin Jenkins
Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 3:58 PM
To: linux-newbi group
Subject: [newbie] localhost


Hello all,
Just did a reinstall of lm80, and in Konqueror, when I select
Local Network I get the error 'could not connect to host localhost'
 I can ping lm80 from windows and using samba can access all shares
 from windows.




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