Ever since I installed linux I've had printer problems printing via a network and so I decided to make it a local printer to see what that did. However, it still doesn't seem to work. I have the printer on parallel port #0 (/dev/lp0) and I know that's a node and so I did an ls -l lp0 and it came up with printers or something similar to that. In other words, I am assuming the node is valid. If my printer is plugged into LPT1, which it is, does anyone have any ideas why it wouldn't be working? I installed the printer using Mandrake Control Center and it just went through a wizard and set the printer up for me correctly (or so I thought).
However, I think I have a good idea what's going on. Although CUPS starts up fine and all, lpd doesn't. It does start up and shows the "OK" message by it but it tells me that my Get_local_host: is a bad host name. However, I really don't know what to change it to and even if I did I don't know how to fix it. I figured that setting up the printer through PrinterDrake would've taken care of all that for me but I guess it didn't, or it might be confused since I used to have the printer installed on the network???? Is that at all reasonable? Any suggestions or help you could give me to fixing my problem would be much appreciated. John Tucker _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
