Printer sharing problem

Craig Fulton msggumby99 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 9 07:50:11 PST 2008


> Craig Fulton wrote:
> > ...
> > The permissions for the directory /private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss are incorrect!
> > They are drwxrwxr-x, but should be drwxr-xr-x
> > Repaired.
> > The file /usr/share/cups/charsets/iso-8859-1 is missing!
> > The file /usr/share/cups/charsets/iso-8859-2 is missing!
> > ...
> > The file /usr/share/cups/charsets/windows-1258 is missing!
>
> The charsets files are not used on Mac OS X (which is why they have
> been removed in later Mac OS X releases).  Similarly, the permission
> change is necessary to support RSS subscriptions and was made in a
> later software update.  Unfortunately, the "repair permissions" tool
> in Disk Utility only uses the original installation information to
> verify things...
>
> That said, this is *not* a CUPS software issue on your Mac, so don't
> try to install any CUPS files there.  Instead, look at the
> /var/log/cups/access_log file (open the Console utility and click on
> "Show Log Files") - you should see the Windows system accessing the
> Mac when you add the printer.  If you don't, verify that the Vista
> firewall is allowing the traffic to your Mac.
>
> --Thanks I will do some more investigation
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com





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