printer problem fixed -- but why?

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 08:55 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> 	I'm having trouble getting my Epson Stylus Color 980 printer working on
> a newly installed FC4 system.
> 	Using the Printer Configuration wizard I associated this printer with
> the default locally connected queue /dev/usb/lp0.  I also selected the
> default driver: Epson Color 980.  When I try sending any of the test
> pages to the printer I get the error message: There was a problem
> sending the test page to 'Epson980' queue.  lpr error -- unable to print
> file: server error service unavailable.
> 	What does this mean and what can I do about it?  The printer worked
> fine when I was running FC3.
> 	Thanks for the help!
> 
> Jerry
> 
Hello again,

	I fixed this problem by making the /etc/hosts file on PuteC (running
FC4) look like the old one on PuteA (still running FC3).  But I was just
hacking in the dark and don't know why this worked.
	When I installed FC4 on PuteC the /etc/host file looked like this:

192.168.1.12    PuteC.SMAssociates.com  PuteC   localhost.localdomain
localhost
192.168.1.11    PuteA.SMAssociates.com  PuteA

To get something looking like the FC3 version on PuteA I took out the
localhost.localdomain and localhost aliases.  Now the printer works
fine.  But why? 

Jerry