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.

Active Directory mystery error

Using OS X 10.5.7, I can’t rebind to AD. I get the error:

Step 1 of 6: Searching for Forest/Domain information
Binding failed with error -14150

Active Directory Error Message

What the heck is going on.

I had to delete

edu.mit.Kerberos
edu.mit.Kerberos.old

and

one more of these with a 21 digit hash at the end.

Now it lets me rebind.

Crowd/group behaviour

Listening to this podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1941788686
About predicting the behaviour of terrorist groups, I immediately thought of Isaac Asimov’s Psychohistory.

CUPS stopped with status 10

Recently, while trying to double-bake a PDF, we saw this error in the console:

(/usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800) stopped with status 10!

I couldn’t find much about this error, except for this. Which of course has no further information.

This “me too” post has been brought to you by the number 10.

Safari 4 still not Kerberized

I still get 303 errors when trying to access Secure HTTP (https) sites. It’s the damn ISAProxy server again.
This means I can’t even log in to WordPress, unless I use Firefox. This doesn’t bother me, I like FF.