[plug] mandrake 7.2 problems

[Bernard Blackham]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Alan Howard wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:42, Mark wrote:
> > Cups Host = localhost ( or what ever you have named your machine)
> > Cups port = 631
>  kups still says it cant connect to server. this is a line from ps -aux
> root       266  0.5  3.6  4456 2368 ?        S    18:14   0:02 cupsd

I'm just coming in completely mid conversation here, plus I know nothing
about cups itself so this is just a random thought...

If you telnet'ed into localhost on port 631 (assuming this uses TCP/IP and
not UNIX ports) and see if it says connection refused or not, then it just
might *possibly* be a misconfigured firewall. Unlikely though - purely
random thought. But if it did connect, (if only you could speak cups
protocol over TCP/IP, being multilingual is handy) then you know
something's going...

Does it have options to bind to various addresses? eg, binds to localhost
but not anything else?

Spurious thoughts,

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham
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