Rick Stevens wrote: ....
We also have to ask...why are you still running RH9? It's over four years old now, it's got major security issues, it's an ancient 2.2 kernel, its memory management is atrocious, it's not supported anymore by anyone, etc., etc. You really should make the leap to something modern: RHEL, Fedora or CentOS (even SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian or some other derivative).
Rick,Thanks for the info on your /etc/hosts files and also on how to trouble shoot the printer problem. To answer your question about my using RH9 I don't have anything to burn CDs with, and 9 is the last release of Redhat that was available on CDs (as far as I know). Also, I'm not sure my hardware is capable of running later editions. (As a matter of fact on a couple of machines with more limited memory than my desktop I am running RH6.2)
I don't want to move to some other vendor because, to be frank, I have come to regard the quality of advice I get from this list very highly
and don't want to leave you guys!