On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:59 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: > Hi Anne, > > James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your > LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name <-> IP-Address > translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems > (Printer-Server and Client). > Hi, Joerg. My reply earliers doesn't seem to have got through. What I said was:
Thanks, Bryan and Jack. You are both right, I'm sure. That box is a very low spec and hardly capable of anything, so I've never spent much time on it. I'm sure that's what it is. I've been thinking about it while I was out this afternoon and came to a similar conclusion. I'm going to replace the puny disk that has no room for manouver, sometime in the next day or two and re-install. It's a temporary fix, though, as I intend building a better machine in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I'll get essential services only running, but fixing the dns does count there :-) The router is acting as dns server, and could cope with the ip, but not with the name. I did have this box acting as dns server at one point, then changed my mind. I might change it back again :-) Thanks again, both of you > Also - make sure that Cups allows printing from this IP-Address. > Default it denies it ... > Now this I haven't come across. Where do you set it? I have printed from the windows machines on the lan, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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