UK Mac Wizards

Not PC vs Mac

I just haven’t been prepared to journey across Oxfordshire to help someone with a tired looking Dell running Windows 98. I will continue to refuse encounters of that sort, but a reasonably recent PC running a modern OS should not be beneath me when it or its owner has some trouble. Continue reading

Leopard can't print to a shared printer

OS X Leopard still seems to have trouble finding printers that are shared on the network from macs running earlier versions of OS X.

Potentially you could waste an enormous amount of time getting this to work. But if you know that the printer should be found by the printer browser, especially if it was working before without Leopard, or other macs simply see the printer, try the following in Terminal:

cupsctl… Continue reading