Thanks, I hadn't seen that before. Unfortunately, the default printer was already set to the one I wanted to print to, so Lotus is picking a different one!...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 1, 2002 1:18 pm
2589
Mike - when did they add USB printer sharing for Classic? When I first got OSX (10.1.2 I think) it didn't work. At the time the machine that was hard wired...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 1, 2002 1:58 pm
2590
Here's how twisted my reaction is, as soon as I read this I thought, "Hey, I've got to get one of these Speedstreams, looks like it's got a really strong...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 1, 2002 1:59 pm
2591
Kinda of a technical question here... How do I set/reset my laptops hostname (preferably to 'localhost')? When my laptop moves from network to network, the...
I also have this problem with my notebook, but with PHP code. If "localhost" does not work, then "127.0.0.1" usually works. Also vice-versa. Others can give...
Niraj N Shah
nshah@...
May 1, 2002 9:53 pm
2593
First of all, I thought that "localhost" was a special hostname that always translates to the IP address of the local computer, regardless of what the host...
Dennis C De Mars
ddemars@...
May 1, 2002 9:59 pm
2594
The mac help facility says that the finder should be able to mount nfs volumes (via cmd-K). Anyone done it? -Art...
Arthur M Newman
amnewman@...
May 1, 2002 10:21 pm
2595
This info is courtesy of the freindly-at-my-elbow unix sys admin expert, Mr Mario Obejas .... Don't have a CMD-K method of doing it. But there is a terminal...
Niraj N Shah
nshah@...
May 1, 2002 11:10 pm
2596
Confirmed that this works. I just killed my hung Classic hotsync task using Roger's suggestion. DK ... __________________________________________________ Do...
I feel dumb. Never checked the manpages. Thanks all. In terms of Jbuilder, there is nowhere to tell it which host to talk to. It just asks the system who it...
... Sigh .. I hate to reveal my own ignorance here (Unix is strictly a casual matter for me) but I'll add what little I know to this discussion and others who...
Charles South
south@...
May 1, 2002 11:25 pm
2599
... . . . Well, you would be correct on every other Unix other than Mac OS X, because OS X is NextOS before it is Unix. While the /etc/hosts file exists, it...
You know, the old Mac OS used to have a host file like that too! You kept it in the System folder and it even used the same syntax as the Unix file I believe....
Dennis C De Mars
ddemars@...
May 1, 2002 11:45 pm
2601
Well, I dunno about X, but MacOS 9 offers the ability to create your own localhosts file. Just create it with the text editor of your choice and drop it into...
Kirk D Mueller
kdmueller@...
May 1, 2002 11:54 pm
2602
I have a question - I want to be able to type Kirk and get my machine too (or maybe I'd use a different name). I'm not good at vi, been too many years, so I...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 2, 2002 4:34 am
2603
I use NFSManager too. You can get it from Version Tracker. The Cmd-K method didn't work for me. KP...
Kenneth Prager
prager@...
May 2, 2002 11:59 am
2604
Editing the file apparently won't do you any good on OS X, as it uses NetInfo to determine things like this. It appears you could use NetInfo to make the...
Dennis C De Mars
ddemars@...
May 2, 2002 4:44 pm
2605
Hi, I was trying to transfer over my OSX sticki note file to my new iMac, but I wasn't sure where it was kept on the system. Do you know where it's located? I...
O. Logan
o.logan5@...
May 2, 2002 5:57 pm
2606
... It's still there, but you have to use a sudo command to enable root access, and you also have to change a Users system preference to allow "other" users to...
... I just ran across yet another way to force quit, in Mac OSX, the Missing Manual. OSX provides an application Process Viewer, which shows all the programs...
Dennis J Kane
dkane@...
May 2, 2002 7:06 pm
2608
Aha! It was the "other users" preference I was missing. As for the sudo thing, that caused me some grief a while back. In the early versions they just made the...
Dennis C De Mars
ddemars@...
May 2, 2002 7:49 pm
2609
I recall hearing complaints from people that when they install a new version of OS X they lose all of their stickies. I don't know if Apple ever did anything...
Dennis C De Mars
ddemars@...
May 2, 2002 7:50 pm
2610
I have used cmd-k (Go, Connect to Server from the Finder menu). To mount nfs volumes. The syntax is nfs://servername/exportdir Replace "servername" with the...
I'm having the weirdest problem, and it's cropped up in a couple of different ways. Somehow IE decides that I want to use web proxy for all, in the preferences...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 3, 2002 2:55 pm
2612
... IE gets its proxy preferences from the Network portion of the System Preferences, so as far as I can tell, doing anything to change proxy preferences in...
I believe that I had the same problem and somehow IE was picking up the prefs from the Classic prefs folder. Try launching classic, running IE from there and...
Dennis J Kane
dkane@...
May 3, 2002 4:29 pm
2614
Turns out that the IE prefs do have an effect sometimes. When I take the Ti to work, I change my location in the network control panel, and it includes the...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 3, 2002 4:52 pm
2615
Oh, major doodoo, I switched to OS9 and it¹s still happening. IE 5 in 9 is still saying web proxy for all! I looked in system folder/preferences/Explorer,...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 3, 2002 5:05 pm
2616
As we left the story, my Titanium could get on the web, Tower could not. Tower has IE set to "web proxy for all" and can't be undone. I tried rebooting into 9,...
Allison
asheridan@...
May 3, 2002 9:21 pm
2617
Allison, ... The first box, "Web Proxy" governs whether you go through a proxy when accessing a web page. If it is unchecked, you are not going through a...
