cannot open system/admin/printing, cups errors, cups server could not be contacted...

[gerhard]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 07:01 -0500, Scott Lockwood wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 13:36 +0200, gerhard wrote:
> > How do I access this file? what commands do I type?
> 
> It's just a text file, so use which ever editor you like. Personally, I
> like nano. vi works just as well, as does emacs, jed, pico, etc. try
> 'sudo nano -w /etc/hosts' and make sure that it looks, at least
> somewhat, like this:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 scott-640m.checkgiant.com scott-640m
> 0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
> 
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> 
> Now, you don't have to have the 127.0.1.1 line, but I find it useful to
> have my hostname there and leave 127.0.0.1 as localhost. the 0.0.0.0
> line is my black hole for google-analytics.com. Why? Because neopets.com
> is using it, and it was slowing down playing on the site for me, so I
> killed it. The rest is all defaults.

Ok I have done this but if I go to system/admin/printing I still get
cups	server	could not be contacted
I also deleted all files and reinstalled them. I can not setup my local
printer. 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Scott Lockwood
> 
>