man, 20.12.2004 kl. 05.07 skrev Phil Schaffner: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 20:50 -0500, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > > On Friday 17 December 2004 05:47 pm, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > fre, 17.12.2004 kl. 21.06 skrev Rodolfo J. Paiz: > > > > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:48 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > > > CUPS is almost wilfully difficult to configure. > > Thats putting it mildly. > > ... > > I was the one that originally posted this message. I went to my web > > browser and typed in "Localhost:631", and saw that print jobs were still in > > the queue and the errors were "Unable to look up host "XXXXX- unknown host". > > As I previously mentioned, I have a local LAN and can connect to the internet > > from all of the hosts but am having difficulty in seeing the other nodes on > > the network when it comes to printing - that is, when I try to print > > remotely. When I go the the printing manager, it shows that it can see the > > printer on the remote computer. I can sucessfully ping all of the hosts on > > the LAN, however. All five machines have Fedora Core 3 installed on them. > > How can I correct this problem? I have a wireless router with four ethernet > > ports and the printer is an Epson Stylus C80 on one of the desktops. How do > > I get the computers to "find" the host on which the printer resides? Any > > help would be greatly appreciated. > > I have a similar setup on a 192.168.1.x network behind a cable modem and > router. Using static IP addresses, rather than allowing the router to > assign them via DHCP, and making entries for all the machines > in /etc/hosts works for me. Yup. Personaly i use DNSMASQ... And i personally mean that cups should *save* the broadcasted IP and use that. And then maybe use the dns-name as a "hide" for the user...