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kmosx2: How to Print to Windows in Jaguar
provides advanced steps that will allow any Mac running CUPS (OSX 10.2) to print to printers connected to Windows computers. 10.2.6 and the 03-24-03 security update breaks this. See http://homepage.mac.com/williamwhite/print_towindows.html for workaround, detailed step by step and further troubleshooting help and hints. Panther takes care of this.... Overview: Install and share printer on PC. Link the CUPS backend command to the smbspool command. Add the windows printer from Print Center using...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  William White8
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kmosx3: Beige G3 Panther installation.
does not support Panther on a beige G3. In fact the official requirements are clear - the beige G3 does not meet the requirements to run Panther. 2. A piece of software, called XPostFacto (XPF), has been written, and is available at no cost, that allows the installation to be done. Information here: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto.htm l3. A number of people - including me - have successfully installed Panther on the beige G3. 4. The consensus among those...
in  Older Hardware  by  Eustace Mendis
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kmosx2: Panther questions please read
Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. Panther is due for public...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  a brody
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kmosx3: Installing Panther - Mac OS X v10.3
Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. Installing Panther, step...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  F.J.
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kmosx: UpgradingToPantherByArchive&Install
by-step description of installing Panther on Beige G3s that are already happily running Jaguar, in my case 10.2.8, on a hard drive's first partition that is less than 8 GB. 'Archive and Install' is an option in the Panther Installer, but first, you need to prepare your trusty Beige for the upgrade. I chose to Archive and Install (A&I) because I wanted to save my user folders and settings, applications, applications settings and preferences, and most of my system settings. Jaguar had been running...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  Tina Garfield
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kmosx3: Steps to upgrade to 10.3
that you system meets these requirements: http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html2. Make sure that your hard drive has at least 3.5 GB free. 3. Make sure that your firmware is up to date: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117Firmware updates need to be applied by booting the hard disk off Mac OS 9 and then running them from there. 4. Also if you bought a third party video card, verify that its firmware is up to date for use with Panther. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com is a good...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  a brody
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kmosx3:How to Use Panther W/ Other Languages?
Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. How Do I Use Panther...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  Tom Gewecke
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kmosx3: 10.3 Panther Upgrade: Decision tree
Panther update there are a few things you should consider. Let me try to give you some clues that might help. The following procedure might help to upgrade successfully (most programs mentioned are shareware and are available from http://www.versiontracker.com . You can use most of these for a limited time for free, but I do encourage you to pay the shareware fees so that the programers continue to develop their programs). If you already have serious trouble with your system 10.2.x you can either try...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  Gulliver
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kichat: I've deleted iChatAV 2-Can I get it back?
2.x for Panther, and you still have the original install discs for Panther, you can get iChat AV back by following these instructions. If you don’t have the original Panther Upgrade discs and have a newer computer that came pre-installed with Panther (Software Restore discs), see below about half a page. Otherwise, you’re out of luck if you don’t have either the Upgrade or Software Restore discs that came with your computer. Using the Panther Upgrade Discs:Pacifist is a utility used...
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kmosx3: How to Enable swat in Mac OS X 10.3
in Panther (Mac OSX 10.3) Swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool and provides a convenient way to modify the Samba configuration file, smb.conf, through a web browser interface. Samba is the opensource program included in Jaguar and Panther that provides Mac OSX 10.2+ with its Windows File Sharing and Windows Printer sharing capabilities. Swat is accessed by any user through any web browser at the address http://127.0.0.1:901. Enter root user name and password. Swat is included in the Samba...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  William White8
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kichat: How do I get iChat 3 working ?
working ? - Upgrade hints:FAQTrouble ShootingThis Post deals with Updating iChat 2 in Panther to iChat 3 in Tiger NOTE:- What is said here was found out at the time Tiger was released and the info may not be transferable to any other OS Upgrade such as Tiger to LeopardOk We will start with loading Tiger and iChat version 3.0 From PantherThere are or were serveral Add-ons and applications avaiblable to Panther users of iChat that are not compatible with iChat 3. These following need to be deleted...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  Ralph-Johns-UK
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kmosx3: FIXED—Help Viewer crashes or shows blank window
in Panther. The solution to this problem is simple though — From thexlab.com Troubleshooting Help Viewer FAQ: Go to Users/Your_Name/Library/Preferences and delete the following files: com.apple.help.plist com.apple.helpui.plist com.apple.helpviewer.plist Next go to Users/Your_Name/Library/Caches and delete the folder: com.apple.helpui For further information please consult this article: Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3: Mac Help Viewer unexpectedly quits Do you want to provide feedback on this User Contributed Tip...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  Gulliver
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kipod: Use your iPod to install Tiger.
Tiger on your Mac if you don't have a DVD drive. This also works quite well if you work for an IT department etc. and need to quickly install Tiger on multiple computers. Installing from a external HD or iPod using Firewire is faster than using a DVD drive. Take your Tiger installation DVD to a friend who has a Mac with a DVD drive and Panther or Tiger installed. 1. First plug in your iPod or external firewire HD, put in a Tiger DVD, and open Disk Utility. 2. Then click on one of the disk...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  Patrick Henke
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kmosx3: My Internet Sharing doesn't work...
work... The Mac OS X Internet Sharing capability is a very easy-to-use, effective feature that allows users to share internet access across a local area network (LAN). For most users, using this feature is as easy as clicking on the Start button. Under some very rare circumstances, however, ex-Jaguar users may have noticed that Panther doesn't behave exactly in the same way. Indeed, the engineers have added a security feature that checks for the existence of other DHCP servers on the network...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  F.J.
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kmosx2: What disk utilities are safe for OS X
Panther, and use no other installation methods. A bug in Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) may cause some external hard drives to lose all their data. To keep out of harms you way, you can make more than one frequent backup to external Firewire hard drives and SCSI hard drives (assuming you have built-in SCSI as some SCSI cards aren't yet Mac OS X compatible). Some early iMacs that didn't have Firewire can have Firewire added with Sonnet's Harmoni G3 card. A few Mac OS X compatible machines don't...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  a brody
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kmosx3: Firewire drives may lose data @ 10.3
data under 10.3 Mac OS X 10.3 through Mac OS X 10.3.6 (Panther) may lose data on firewire hard drives. Apple updated the Firewire drivers when creating Panther, resulting in the need of hard drive manufacturers to update the firmware of the cases that have the bridge between IDE and Firewire. This affects: Oxford 911, Oxford 922, Firewire 400 (IEEE 1394, now has been renamed IEEE 1394a), and Firewire 800 (IEEE 1394b). Users have reported problems also with target disk mode as well. The problem...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  a brody
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kmosx: System Utilities for Jaguar & Panther
and Panther More important than any utility is a backup utility and a supported hard drive. Keep at least two backups of all important data that are untouched by the system except in special need of recover. Defragmenting is simply a matter of making a mirror copy of your existing hard drive to another, checking the mirror copy is bootable, and erasing the original and copying back the backup. Both http://www.dantz.com/ Retrospect Desktop and http://www.bombich.com/ Carbon Copy Cloner offer this ability...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  a brody
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kichat: How do I reinstall iChatAV 3.x?
3.x?This is for the Tiger upgrade discs only. To reinstall iChatAV 2.x on Panther, see this FAQ. The Easy Way:Insert your Tiger DVD into your drive. Once the DVD loads, open the Optional Installs package. Click through until you get the option of choosing what you'd like to install. Under the Applications drop down menu in the panel of software to install, simply choose iChatAV and let the installer do the work. Next, scroll down to Possible Problems below. The Hard Way:Download Pacifist. Insert...
in  Messages  by  Ryan M.
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kmosx: How to import Locations; Jag-->Panther
from Jag into Panther When I upgraded from Jaguar to Panther using archive and install my Locations (from Network Preferences) were not installed. The way these preferences were stored changed between 10.2.x and 10.3 and I was unable to figure out how to retrieve the old prefs and so avoid having to recreate 20 Locations from scratch. Following a posting on this forum I have been able to track down the information required and successfully install these Locations. The steps I used are as follows: 1...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  Scoubidoubidou
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kmosx3: MacOS X 10.3: Basic trouble-shooting
Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. MacOS X 10.3 Panther: Basic...
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    kmosx2: How to Print to Windows in Jaguar
    provides advanced steps that will allow any Mac running CUPS (OSX 10.2) to print to printers connected to Windows computers. 10.2.6 and the 03-24-03 security update breaks this. See http://homepage.mac.com/williamwhite/print_towindows.html for workaround, detailed step by step and further troubleshooting help and hints. Panther takes care of this.... Overview: Install and share printer on PC. Link the CUPS backend command to the smbspool command. Add the windows printer from Print Center using...
    Latest update on the question by William White8 in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: Beige G3 Panther installation.
    does not support Panther on a beige G3. In fact the official requirements are clear - the beige G3 does not meet the requirements to run Panther. 2. A piece of software, called XPostFacto (XPF), has been written, and is available at no cost, that allows the installation to be done. Information here: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto.htm l3. A number of people - including me - have successfully installed Panther on the beige G3. 4. The consensus among those...
    Latest update on the question by Eustace Mendis in Older Hardware
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    kmosx2: Panther questions please read
    Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. Panther is due for public...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: Installing Panther - Mac OS X v10.3
    Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. Installing Panther, step...
    Latest update on the question by F.J. in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx: UpgradingToPantherByArchive&Install
    by-step description of installing Panther on Beige G3s that are already happily running Jaguar, in my case 10.2.8, on a hard drive's first partition that is less than 8 GB. 'Archive and Install' is an option in the Panther Installer, but first, you need to prepare your trusty Beige for the upgrade. I chose to Archive and Install (A&I) because I wanted to save my user folders and settings, applications, applications settings and preferences, and most of my system settings. Jaguar had been running...
    Latest update on the question by Tina Garfield in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: Steps to upgrade to 10.3
    that you system meets these requirements: http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html2. Make sure that your hard drive has at least 3.5 GB free. 3. Make sure that your firmware is up to date: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117Firmware updates need to be applied by booting the hard disk off Mac OS 9 and then running them from there. 4. Also if you bought a third party video card, verify that its firmware is up to date for use with Panther. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com is a good...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3:How to Use Panther W/ Other Languages?
    Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. How Do I Use Panther...
    Latest update on the question by Tom Gewecke in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: 10.3 Panther Upgrade: Decision tree
    Panther update there are a few things you should consider. Let me try to give you some clues that might help. The following procedure might help to upgrade successfully (most programs mentioned are shareware and are available from http://www.versiontracker.com . You can use most of these for a limited time for free, but I do encourage you to pay the shareware fees so that the programers continue to develop their programs). If you already have serious trouble with your system 10.2.x you can either try...
    Latest update on the question by Gulliver in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kichat: I've deleted iChatAV 2-Can I get it back?
    2.x for Panther, and you still have the original install discs for Panther, you can get iChat AV back by following these instructions. If you don’t have the original Panther Upgrade discs and have a newer computer that came pre-installed with Panther (Software Restore discs), see below about half a page. Otherwise, you’re out of luck if you don’t have either the Upgrade or Software Restore discs that came with your computer. Using the Panther Upgrade Discs:Pacifist is a utility used...
    Latest update on the question by Ryan M. in Messages
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    kmosx3: How to Enable swat in Mac OS X 10.3
    in Panther (Mac OSX 10.3) Swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool and provides a convenient way to modify the Samba configuration file, smb.conf, through a web browser interface. Samba is the opensource program included in Jaguar and Panther that provides Mac OSX 10.2+ with its Windows File Sharing and Windows Printer sharing capabilities. Swat is accessed by any user through any web browser at the address http://127.0.0.1:901. Enter root user name and password. Swat is included in the Samba...
    Latest update on the question by William White8 in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kichat: How do I get iChat 3 working ?
    working ? - Upgrade hints:FAQTrouble ShootingThis Post deals with Updating iChat 2 in Panther to iChat 3 in Tiger NOTE:- What is said here was found out at the time Tiger was released and the info may not be transferable to any other OS Upgrade such as Tiger to LeopardOk We will start with loading Tiger and iChat version 3.0 From PantherThere are or were serveral Add-ons and applications avaiblable to Panther users of iChat that are not compatible with iChat 3. These following need to be deleted...
    Latest update on the question by Ralph-Johns-UK in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: FIXED—Help Viewer crashes or shows blank window
    in Panther. The solution to this problem is simple though — From thexlab.com Troubleshooting Help Viewer FAQ: Go to Users/Your_Name/Library/Preferences and delete the following files: com.apple.help.plist com.apple.helpui.plist com.apple.helpviewer.plist Next go to Users/Your_Name/Library/Caches and delete the folder: com.apple.helpui For further information please consult this article: Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3: Mac Help Viewer unexpectedly quits Do you want to provide feedback on this User Contributed Tip...
    Latest update on the question by Gulliver in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kipod: Use your iPod to install Tiger.
    Tiger on your Mac if you don't have a DVD drive. This also works quite well if you work for an IT department etc. and need to quickly install Tiger on multiple computers. Installing from a external HD or iPod using Firewire is faster than using a DVD drive. Take your Tiger installation DVD to a friend who has a Mac with a DVD drive and Panther or Tiger installed. 1. First plug in your iPod or external firewire HD, put in a Tiger DVD, and open Disk Utility. 2. Then click on one of the disk...
    Latest update on the question by Patrick Henke in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: My Internet Sharing doesn't work...
    work... The Mac OS X Internet Sharing capability is a very easy-to-use, effective feature that allows users to share internet access across a local area network (LAN). For most users, using this feature is as easy as clicking on the Start button. Under some very rare circumstances, however, ex-Jaguar users may have noticed that Panther doesn't behave exactly in the same way. Indeed, the engineers have added a security feature that checks for the existence of other DHCP servers on the network...
    Latest update on the question by F.J. in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx2: What disk utilities are safe for OS X
    Panther, and use no other installation methods. A bug in Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) may cause some external hard drives to lose all their data. To keep out of harms you way, you can make more than one frequent backup to external Firewire hard drives and SCSI hard drives (assuming you have built-in SCSI as some SCSI cards aren't yet Mac OS X compatible). Some early iMacs that didn't have Firewire can have Firewire added with Sonnet's Harmoni G3 card. A few Mac OS X compatible machines don't...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: Firewire drives may lose data @ 10.3
    data under 10.3 Mac OS X 10.3 through Mac OS X 10.3.6 (Panther) may lose data on firewire hard drives. Apple updated the Firewire drivers when creating Panther, resulting in the need of hard drive manufacturers to update the firmware of the cases that have the bridge between IDE and Firewire. This affects: Oxford 911, Oxford 922, Firewire 400 (IEEE 1394, now has been renamed IEEE 1394a), and Firewire 800 (IEEE 1394b). Users have reported problems also with target disk mode as well. The problem...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
    3,588 views 0 replies
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    kmosx: System Utilities for Jaguar & Panther
    and Panther More important than any utility is a backup utility and a supported hard drive. Keep at least two backups of all important data that are untouched by the system except in special need of recover. Defragmenting is simply a matter of making a mirror copy of your existing hard drive to another, checking the mirror copy is bootable, and erasing the original and copying back the backup. Both http://www.dantz.com/ Retrospect Desktop and http://www.bombich.com/ Carbon Copy Cloner offer this ability...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
    203 views 0 replies
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    kichat: How do I reinstall iChatAV 3.x?
    3.x?This is for the Tiger upgrade discs only. To reinstall iChatAV 2.x on Panther, see this FAQ. The Easy Way:Insert your Tiger DVD into your drive. Once the DVD loads, open the Optional Installs package. Click through until you get the option of choosing what you'd like to install. Under the Applications drop down menu in the panel of software to install, simply choose iChatAV and let the installer do the work. Next, scroll down to Possible Problems below. The Hard Way:Download Pacifist. Insert...
    Latest update on the question by Ryan M. in Messages
    368 views 0 replies
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    kmosx: How to import Locations; Jag-->Panther
    from Jag into Panther When I upgraded from Jaguar to Panther using archive and install my Locations (from Network Preferences) were not installed. The way these preferences were stored changed between 10.2.x and 10.3 and I was unable to figure out how to retrieve the old prefs and so avoid having to recreate 20 Locations from scratch. Following a posting on this forum I have been able to track down the information required and successfully install these Locations. The steps I used are as follows: 1...
    Latest update on the question by Scoubidoubidou in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx3: MacOS X 10.3: Basic trouble-shooting
    Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion. MacOS X 10.3 Panther: Basic...
    Latest update on the question by Gulliver in Earlier Operating Systems
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