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
