[ale] sharing a printer

[James P. Kinney III]

Looks like you don't have a host name set for the hosting machine. For a
simple network, DNS is overkill. Just setup static IP's and edit
the /etc/hosts file on all the machines and it should work OK.

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 09:41 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Situation:
> home network; main Linux box; secondary linux box; Mac laptop.
> 
> I am trying to share the HP laser printer hooked (parallel) to
> the main linux box with the other machines on the LAN. Using
> CUPS this "appears" to be easy. I simply set the printer to be
> "shared."
> 
> The Mac laptop picks it up with no problem and lists it as
> a useable printer.
> 
> Just one catch. The HP is being advertised as being the
> HP at localhost.localdomain. Needless to say, the Mac has absolutely
> no idea where such a computer might be. It coughs with the
> error message:
>   "Unable to lookup host 'localhost.localdomain' - unknown
>   host."
> 
> There has got to be an easy answer to this -- the address _ought_
> to be something like HP at 192.168.1.xxx but I have looked all through
> the CUPS configuration files and still have no clue.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Sean 
> 
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