On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. > Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up > all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to > print a test page comes up with an error saying > > unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net > > Any ideas, please?
You need to add an entry to your /etc/hosts file that specifies an IP address for anne-linux.lydgate.net which is the machine that is broadcasting the printer connection. Without an entry to your /etc/hosts file, your machine is trying to connect to anne-linux.lydgate.net and the DNS server is saying that it does not know how to resolve that hostname. I assume that you are not running your own DNS server and DHCP server or else those would be setting the nameserver to the DNS and the DNS would be resolving the hostname for the box. On my local network, I use not FQD names as hostnames and on each machine, I need to add the IP addresses for all of these machines to the hosts file. Like: 192.168.0.125 anne-linux.lydgate.net 192.168.0.125 tom-linux.lydgate.net etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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