iSlate is late

It’s a scam. The “iSlate” is a dumb name, and if you change the spacing, it reads “is late”.
It’s out later than they would have liked. Who has any money for gadgets so close to holiday time (Mass Consumerism Day)?
Apple iSlate =
Apple iS late =
Apple is late.
Can no one else see this?

Can’t Mount SMB Share “Enumerated Shares Failed Permission Denied”

Well that’s what Console was telling me. The Finder would say “You do not have permission to access this server” when attempting to mount via SMB. The system is OS X 10.5.8. The Server is Windows Server 2003. I’m here to help you.
I tried going into terminal and using
smbclient -L servername.domain.com
but I got
session setup failed NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
However there is no problem with the password or the account being locked out because the user could logon to the share fine using Windows.
One time I tried killing off NetAuthAgent and that seemed to work. But this time no.
Repairing Permissions found some problems with Kerberos.app. But I was getting a valid ticket from the server!
I ended up deleting smb.conf and of course logging out and back in so OSX would make me a new one from its template. Then I could logon.

Rowmote Pro Not My Favorite Anymore

Remote control apps for the iPhone are my current infatuation.
I was in search of the best one, but none of them seem to be the contender.
Rowmote Pro has smooth and accurate pointer control.
It has “shake-to-reveal-keyboard” which is nice.
It has a Front-Row-style/ Apple Remote Emulation mode.
The right-click ability is awful I’m afraid. You have to use two-finger tap. I had to resort to using the “^” key and clicking. But even then it would get confused and stick the key down, right-clicking when I no longer wanted it to.
However there is no way to control it in a way that a real keyboard does. iPhone has built-in capslock for the shift key, but this app does not have that for the other function keys.
But really, the right click does suck on this app. Once you two-finger tap, and you try to access a menu in the contextual menu, the contextual menu disappears. It’s highly frustrating.
We need to get these developers talking to Brian of xGestures fame, and possibly have sound input from the iPhone’s mic do something as well. Then you can click or snap or clap and get the iPhone to send a keystroke that could be intercepted by OS X to perform a function.
Wouldn’t you like to wave the iPhone and have it invoke Exposé? Snap your fingers and have it Hide Others?
You saw it here first.
Back to RemotePad for now I think. Also have to try the paid version of Nam’s Remote.

LogMeIn Update Keeps Pestering Me

“The LogMein Update Is Being Downloaded to your computer”

This pops up randomly but it never works. The dialog eventually disappears but the update never occurs.

Perhaps manually installing will fix it.

Trying to use OCS with Messenger 7.0.2

From yesterday I can’t authenticate to our SIP server. Yes we have the certificate installed. It is set to Always Trust.
Yes I have the IP address of the SIP server in System Preferences’ No Proxy List.
It was working once. Somehow I managed to score a Kerberos ticket from a server in the same domain as the SIP server.
Since yesterday I haven’t been receiving one.
I checked the console and in /Library/Ligs/SingleSignOnTools I can see
ReadConfigHeader could not find header in /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos
Not much about this line on the web.

Got my Mac working on 10.5.7 and another on Snow 10.6 also working. Two others on 10.5.7 cant get them to work.
One of them has this entry in the Console
SecKeychainItemCopyAccess error
and
[0x0-0x34034].com.apple.keychainaccess[420] 2009-10-22 16:10:56.163 kcproxy[534:10b] SecKeychainItemSetAccess status: -2147413720
More to come!

SMB error -43

Upon attempting to mount an SMB share, I am getting error -43. The Share is my USB Memory Stick formatted as FAT16 by Mac OS plugged into my Belkin router.

The Console says

smb_maperror: Unmapped DOS error

I have tried editing editing smb.conf to miniauth=none but apparently that’s the wrong file. That’s the one for Mac OS SMB file sharing. I have turned off Security completely but it still wont mount.
Is there any chance the Belkin or OS X really would prefer FAT32 formatting?

FTP works fine however. It’s just a pain because the Finder’s FTP is read-only. Fetch is also having problems authenticating. I just made a new user on the SMB share on the Router’s setup page. Fetch is happy to connect and it shows me an empty directory- where exactly are we again? I thought I had shared the whole volume.
So I can’t seem up to upload onto it. TIme to call tech support perhaps?

Printing Stopped With Error 255

The system was 10.4.11.
The Printer was the Epson Stylus 740.
The queues just stop, and no ink ever hits the paper.
Check the Console.

MacHD/Applications/Utilities/Console

Then in the sidebar check

/var/log/cups/error_log

Why couldn’t I find this then?

I suppose I knew I could try reinstalling OSX, but reinstalling the Epson Drivers from the 10.4 disc or their website might be the way to go.

Here’s one about foomatic not working

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1321087

What didn’t work was Reset Printing System. That clears all old jobs and removes all instances of your printers so that have to be readded. cupsd is stopped and restarted.

But I wanted to know more…

the console always tells me to set the LogLevel to Debug to find out more! I searched the web but found nothing, so I thought I’d write my own.

You need to modify a text file

/private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

. /Private is normally invisible, so you can either get there by

1. Making it visible in the Finder
2. Visiting it using the Go to Folder… command in the Finder
3. Visit it with the Terminal (in Applications/Utilities/Terminal)

I recommend opening it with TextWrangler from Barebones. With the Terminal you could use vi, pico or emacs (but that might be overkill).
Search for the word “LogLevel”. It will currently be set to “info”
Change “info” to “debug”.
Save and Close.
Cupsd will need to be stopped and started. Yes Reset Printing System does this but it also refreshes the newly modified cupsd.conf from a backup. So that’s no good.
Well I think Activity Monitor is the easiest way to kill a daemon. You will need to view All Processes.
You can’t just go and launch cupsd by itself. I tried it. There are some other processes that all need to get inited or whatever.
You need to go into

MacHD/System/Library/StartupItems/PrintingServices/

and type sudo PrintingServices start. This will restart the cupsd.
Your error_log in Console will now fill up with everything that cups is doing, so you might be able to catch the problem in the act.

Slow Chinese Audio in TomTom iPhone App

This has been bugging me a little while. If you try out the voice turn-by-turn directions in Chinese, every couple of instructions are played back at about a quarter of normal speed. It seems to be a bug.
I’m not the first. A quick eu-googly found this

http://www.xsellize.com/showpost.php?s=acd32069e0d5a72235811ba1873cd56a&p=225802&postcount=4

So it’s not just my iPhone.
TomTom, it’s great that you are available in so many languages, but please test them before releasing the app. Fix in next update?

Rare Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 Error?

Today, we were trying to merge several PDFs into one file. The grand total of all PDFs was 2.66GB.
Acrobat failed, with the error:
“The document could not be saved. This file is too big for the current operation.” However just yesterday we were able to make a 2.71GB PDF without trouble.
There do not seem to be many sites that list this error, so I am posting so you know you are not alone. This bug is real people.

iTunes 9.0.1 fail

iTunes 9.0.1
It has a podcast it is trying to download, and I can’t pause it or cancel it. Pause All does nothing either. I can’t delete the line for the podcast either. It’s unresponsive, as Apple would say.
I also can’t quit iTunes, I have to force quit.
OS X 10.5.8.
Any suggestions? Where does iTunes keep this list cached?

30/9/09 update- I got it to stop finally. I deleted the line item in Sidebar-Library-Podcasts. The dialog warning me that it was in the middle of downloading appeared, but this time it listened, stopped the download and removed the line item making it difficult for me to get it back if I want to.