Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>   
>> One opens a web browser, and tries getting the local CUPS website to
>> show, either by browsing to http://localhost:631 or http://127.0.0.1:631
>> (they're the same thing).
>>     
> Unless he fixed his /etc/hosts file, they may not the same thing. He
> had two entries for localhost, with two different IP addresses. I
> think it uses the first match, but I am not sure. It wounder if the
> problem is that CUPS is configured to only allow administrator
> logins from 127.0.0.1, but because of the hosts problem, he is
> connecting on the 192.168.x.x address. (I don't remember the IP
> address.)
>
> I have been skipping a lot of the messages in this thread because
> they couldn't be bothered to trim their replies... So this may have
> been fixed by now.
>
> Mikkel
>   
My /etc/hosts file.

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
#
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   
localhost                                                                           

192.168.0.1     reddwarf.localdomain    reddwarf
           
  david