On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > 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 > > > > > It appears that the emailer wrapped the line. ---- good...otherwise, it would be a problem Craig
