On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:29 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > 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 ---- the line all by itself that says localhost...is that really on a line all by itself or is it actually on the line that starts 127.0.0.1 and the e-mail wrapped it onto the next line? Craig