Please send the output of 'ifconfig -a' - the loopback connection may not actually be up, although it ought to be... On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Vince Thompson wrote: > I have two computers that I loaded Fedora on. I am trying to get the web > browser to show the localhost but keep getting the Connection Refused > message on both machines. > > If I use http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 I get the connection refused. > If I use Telnet to connect I get the connection refused message too. > If I try rlogin I get the connection refused message. > I was trying to get Samba and Swat working so http://localhost:901 was one > of the first addresses I tried and got the connection refused message. > > I am able to connect to the machines with ssh and from a Windows machine > using PuTTY. > > The desktop machine has the following in its hosts file: > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will vail. > 127.0.0.1 hpvli8ux localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.1.12 vetts > > I have the firewall turned off. > > Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution? > > I've tried google searches but haven't found a solution yet. Also, is there > a way to search the archives for this maillist? > > > > -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
