[ale] another CUPS issue

[Jim Philips]

Doh! My firewall. Thanks Dow!!

On Sunday 03 September 2006 16:31, you wrote:
> Jim,
> Can you telnet to localhost at port 631?  Try:
> telnet 127.0.0.1 631
> or
> telnet localhost 631
>
> do you get a reply?  If there is a long timeout you have a loopback
> interface problem or a routing problem, right?  Really just a /etc/hosts
> or DNS problem.  Maybe restarting nscd could help.  Normally, not
> getting to the admin interface with a browser is a more fundamental
> problem relating to internal networking or local name resolution.
> Hope this helps,
> Dow
>
> Jim Philips wrote:
> > I'm running Kubuntu here. My printer was configured and working before.
> > But now whenever I try to configure my printer, KDE's print setup tools
> > tell me that CUPS isn't installed. It is installed and cupsd is running.
> > If I try to go to the CUPS admin interface at localhost:631, it never
> > comes up. Some other tools complain about not finding foomatic-db. That's
> > also installed. The Gnome cups tool is installed and it seems to have
> > less trouble in locating the CUPS daemon, but it still takes forever. 
> > I'm wondering if I shouldn't just rip out the CUPS deb package and build
> > CUPS from source. _______________________________________________
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