Weird printer problem

scott redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com
Sat Feb 23 03:35:49 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 02/21/2008 10:32 PM, scott wrote:
>   
>> scott wrote:
>>     
>>> To cut to the chase, whenever I print any page, I get swamped with DNS
>>> requests to an @localhost. address.I use Samba,have checked samba.conf,
>>> dhcpd.conf, /etc/hosts and can not figure out why this is happening.
>>>
>>> It only happens after I print something.I have gone through my cupsys
>>> files and just can't figure this one out
>>>
>>> .Even my hplip doesn't show anything that would start spewing DNS 
>>> requests.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>    Scott
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Nobody has any ideas? Am I that deep in hot water to where I have to 
>> delete Samba, and everything related, to see if this does it?
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Post a few lines of the actual request message. Also a few relevent
> lines of your /var/log/samba log.
>
>
>   
Thanks, NoOP , but I ended up just deleting Samba altogether and 
starting over. I haven't run a print job yet, though. (Fingers crossed).

Thanks and I hope I don't encounter this problem again.

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