Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

I have two USB printers connected to an USB hub. To allow a second
computer to use them, I need a print server.
I have three options:
1) Two 1-port print servers (like USR7500).

I have a number of external hard disks and the behavior of Finder and
Spotlight differs from what I would think as normal in regards to these
disks.....
Selecting "Hard disks" in the Finder Sidebar preferences Finder will show the

Just got my first Mac, a 17" Powerbook, however, the Airport does not
work. I bought this thing s/h so can't just get a replacement. It came
with 10.3, and I'm sure Airport was in System Preferences, but I
immediately upgraded to 10.4.2, and now Airport is not in System

I want it back, I lost it a while back and no links online. am I
spelling it wrong. anyone actually have it? if so please send it to me.

Have a 5 month old iMac running 10.3.9.
When using the data portion of Appleworks, the program consistantly
locks up for 10-15 seconds, the wheel spins and then the program will
again work.  For example, when in the list area of the data part of the

I am trying to automount shares in Tiger. All the hints I have found so
far give ways of automounting when you first login. However this is not
quite what I want.
There are two Macs in my network (both Tiger). One is a laptop and is

I was over at a friends house today and although he had told me before
that his Find function (command F) doesn't perform, I was doubtful of
his claims.
He bought a Mac Mini about 4 months ago loaded with Panther. Everything

Hello all, any and all advice greatly appreciated,
I am trying to properly open up the ports on the way to my computer so
that I can get higher dl speeds with bittorrent.
Here's my set up

I do not print often, but when I do its usually done by sending a fax.  
Know I admit that the fax software quality for the Mac has most
definately gone way, way down hill compared to what it used to be during
the OS 7.x days.  FaxSTF pro does not even have half the features of ...

pardon my ignorance but i am newbie to macworld.
would 160 Gb hd (maxtor) work with PowerMac G3 (400Mhz) Blue/White tower.
is there any limitation before i plunk down $$$ for 160 Gb.
i am too poor to afford G5.

For weeks, I have been trying to get a USB Iomega Zip 250 Drive to work on
my Mac Mini with OSX 10.3.9, to no avail.
System Profiler shows the drive as being alive and active.
I have my System Preferences set to "Show these items in the

In the "Welcome to Tiger" manual that I have, on page 22 ("Works With
Windows"), there is an icon in the sidebar that say's "Anne's
Computer". How is this acheived? What is it for? I have messed around
connecting to shares on other computers, but I am only able to put a

No, a Mac laptop didn't escape from the zoo and bite people.
There's a thread on this in sci.astro.amateur, but I'm surprised it
isn't a major topic here.
Apparently, c|net has an article claiming that Apple is in talks with

I would like to format my Power Mac G5.
Does anyone know which tools or software required to format Mac Harddisk,
make partition.
I have original Mac OS 10.2 Operating system.

At our school we have two networks - pupil network and administrative
network - both with a different ip range etc. The network laser printer
is on the pupil network. When I am connected - as I am most of the time
- to the administrative network, my mac can't see the printer at ...