On May 24, 11:41 am, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 24, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Dan wrote: > > > Special characters don't propagate well. They were ok with AppleTalk, but > > not for dDNS. Stick with basic alphanumerics and dashes or underscores. > > dashes only.
Yep. I experimented last night and rebooting and clearing the device list made no difference. The spaces and the apostrophes appear to have been a problem. But I also saw behaviour in which the device list truncated a device name at an apostrophe. So, instead of rejecting the device name and substituting unknonw-<$MAC> it used the name up to the apostrophe. However, there may be a character count limit and the treatment of that apostrophe could be coincidental. I also got my printers configured and corresponding network print drivers loaded on all the computer systems. That had been a little haphazard, plus I recently added a JetDirect card to the LJ2100 and hadn't had a chance to clean out the previous owner's settings. BTW, anyone ever seen Postscript drivers for the LJ2100 for Windows? Along the way I discovered (yes, I'm really behind on the migration to X thing) that OSX 10.5 doesn't announce itself as a file sharing server in any way that an OS9 machine can understand. Is that correct. What a pain. Sure there's the IP address workaround, but that is so counter to the way the Mac was designed to be used originally... Yes, yes, upgrade and the behaviour is more or less intuitive again, but really, how hard would it have been to have late OSX machines announce themselves to OS 9 machines? Or spend $10,000 and code up an extension to 9 that does Rendevour or Bonjour or whatever its called. Oh, well. Sigh. Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
