Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:57 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
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>> Craig White wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:12 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
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>>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
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>>>>> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:18 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
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>>>>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> I've done a "rpm -e --nodeps cups" then "yum install cups" and got to 
>>>>>>>>>> the point where
>>>>>>>>>> thunderbird and firefox send a print request to my HP PSC 2110 but is 
>>>>>>>>>> not printed out.
>>>>>>>>>> I still cannot open "localhost 631" 'Unable to connect'.
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>>>>>>>>> how about in firefox...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://localhost:631
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Craig
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>>>>>>>> comes up with "Unable to connect"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     david
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>>>>>>> It seems to me there are only two possibilities:
>>>>>>> 1. cupsd is not running. What does : ps aux -columns 256 |grep cupsd
>>>>>>> return/
>>>>>>> 2. Your /etc/hosts file does not define a localhost. Use the ip number
>>>>>>> of ypur machine rather than localhost.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> =======================================================================
>>>>>>> Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
>>>>>>> =======================================================================
>>>>>>> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
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>>>>>> [root at reddwarf ~]# ps aux -columns 256 |grep cupsd
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>>>>> I am not doing well with things like spellins and such.
>>>>> It is --columns
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>>>>>> Could you give me an example of the /etc/hosts/ file please
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>>>>> hosts file:
>>>>> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
>>>>> # that require network functionality will fail.
>>>>> 127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost
>>>>> 192.168.1.100		vulcan vulcan.gateway.2wire.net
>>>>> 192.168.1.101		saturn saturn.gateway.2wire.net
>>>>> 192.168.1.65		cyrus cyrus.gateway.2wire.net
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>>>> Would this be correct: 192.168.0.1     reddwarf localhost.localdomain
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>>> no - should be more like (note the first 2 lines)...
>>>
>>> # 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 localhost.localdomain
>>>
>>> Craig
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>> Thanks for that Craig,now the good news,i'm into 'localhost:631' then
>> set up the printer then I'm asked for user name and password but its
>> not accepting anything i put to it.can I delete a cups password file
>> and start again.
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> the only username/password combo that is gonna make cups happy is root
> and root password
>
> Craig
>
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Yes I agree but cups will not accept 'root:root password'

  david