Is CUPS insane?

[lmello]

Here's the thing - in a couple of machines of my small network CUPS suddenly stopped to work - when I try to connect to it via the "localhost:631", the browser alerts me that it cannot connect to this location.

And last week everything was working just fine!

[Akuna]

A problem with your network?

[lmello]

A problem with your network?

I don't know, some machines can print, a couple of others don't.

The real problem is that the users of my network are willing to crucify me because things don't work... they're complete Linux n00bs and I don't know if they accidentally messed up the system.

[thenktor]

when I try to connect to it via the "localhost:631", the browser alerts me that it cannot connect to this location.

Your CUPS daemon does not seem to be running. First try /etc/rc.d/rc.cups status or ps ax | grep cupsd to verify this. If it is not running try to start it with /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start. An error message why cupsd cannot start should appear.

[gapan]

You messing with cups/permissions settings while trying to make your scanner work is a more probable cause for cups not working than cups being insane.