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I had a network printer configured for my Red hat box that was working fine yesterday. Now for some reason it can no longer find the printer or the other networked windows puters. Any help to fix this problem would be appreciated.
When you run /sbin/ifconfig what's the output? Can you ping anything? Is the light on at the hub/switch? Have you had some coffee yet? Did the cable get unpluged? Have you made any changes lately?
LoL.. Hmm.. Yep, had my coffee. Everything is plugged in. I can ping everything. The only changes I have made is working on setting up my FTP. Here is the output file:
If you can't remember what you named it, you probably didn't, in which case the default name of localhost is used. This is usually displayed as part of your command prompt. Also, you could run the command:hostname to find out.
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