[pal]

Just before I bought the new mini, I bought the sales line that "it just works".

I have already given up on the promise that it would work with the other machines on my desk (windows and linux) through the kvm switch. I now have a separate mouse and kb just for the mini. Grrrr!

To even more frustrating issues...
It won't print. All my printers are hooked directly to the tcp/ip lan around the house. One Brother laser (hl5040) on an Asus wl500g router, and another (hl1040) on a Surecom print Server. Also have an Epson inkjet on the print server, but haven't even switched it on yet! All printers work from all windows and linux machines, but the mini insists the one on the router is busy all the time, and the one on the print served spits out reems of blank paper when the mini tries to print. Rang Apple tech support, but after he talked me through uninstall and reinstalling the printers, and the same things still happened, he said to post the questions on a forum because he had no idea.!!! Great!

I also have a nas drive on the network which (thankfully) the mini seems to be able to access quite well, but I have to manually tell it where to find the nas drive, and manually enter the password every time I power up. Is there some was to tell the mini to automatically reconnect at logon the same way that all my windows and linux machines do?

Thanks in anticipation,

Pal

[slarti]

Are there print drivers for the version of OSX you're using? One of my printers is Windows only, the other works fine in all but 10.4

[macguru]

open disk utility in applications/utilities folder and repair disk utilities. Also have latest version of operating system on disk.
When printing try from shared printers list........
The Real truth is networking and network printing on Tiger 10.4.3 is still a buggy mess. Expect improvements in OS 10.4.4 update just currently in alpha release.

[macguru]

repair permissions on startup volume that is....see if that helps.......