I am trying to install the printer driver for my Brother MFC3320CN printer / scanner / fax machine.
I am using Mandrake 10.1
I have downloaded the driver and CUPS wrapper from the Brother web site and installed them.
The next thing I have to do is type 'http://localhost:631' in my browser to access the printer set up. Unfortunately all I get is an error message 'An error occurred while loading http://127.0.0.0:631/:'

I have checked that I have lo running on by typing 'route' on the command line - it's there, and I have also checked that I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in my /etc/hosts file.

Can anyone give me a clue as to why I can't access localhost:631?

Thanks in anticipation.........

Is cups running on the system. You can check this in the Services option somewhere in the Mandrake Control Center.

Is cups running:
netstat -nlp | grep 631

Any firewall rules:
iptables -nL

thanks for your reply reddaz & david_ross.
I checked my CUPS server was up and running - it was, I also did the netstat -nlp | grep 631, this produced nothing as far as I can see - is that significant?
The netstat command produced masses of stuff I didn't understand, too much to paste into here anyway.
I'm going to look into the netstat command to see what it does.
Thanks again for your help. If I don't come up with anything, I'll come back here - wish me luck!

Do you have a firewall up. If so turn off and see if you can connect.

Brian1

If the netstat command didn't produce any results then it doesn't look like cups is listening for connections.

Can you post the output from:
ps -ef | grep cup
netstat -nlp

I followed Brian1's advice and turned off the firewall - I was able to get a look at the printer set-up screen on localhost:631

This means I have to do a bit of work on my firewall......

Thanks everyone, for your help.