LPP Sharing Problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 06.09.2004 schrieb Norman Nunn um 3:55:

> I am using a Linksys router set for DHCP mode assigning the IP
> addresses.  

> tried other combinations but could not get a print test to work. A note
> on the printer config gui lpp printer line indicates that it could not
> look up host ip address. 

> Both PC's use Fedora Core 2 installed for the default host name,
> localhost.localdomain.  I wondered if the host name had to be changed
> and that used as the server ID instead of the ip address.  There is
> probably an easy solution here but I sure have missed it.

> Norm

As always in this situation with DHCP and not setting up a custom
hostname: change your hosts hostnames to anything different than
localhost.localdomain. This can be done with the graphical network setup
tool. Then check again the functionality of Cups and it's logs.

Alexander


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