Daily Archives: February 15, 2004

Making my 10.3 Mac print on windows

I had printing working on 10.2 through windows to a LaserJet 4 with Postscript.
But (like many things) it broke on 10.3. 10.3 should work better becuase I did not have to remember weird strings like
smb://teresa:fred@severance/compaq/hplaserj
However when I would type the ID/PW it would hang forever.
Then I checked my notes and made the following change to my file /etc/smb.conf file – I added a line as follows in the [global section]
name resolve order = bcast lmhost host
Perhaps the lmhost and bcast should be flipped – but I figured what-the heck. The I rebooted and all is good.
Why does Apple not even test the simplest things before they ship software. No mortal human wants to ever read the smb.conf file. I whould send them a bill for two hours wasted. Perhaps I could get half of my $129 back or something..