Can't print when home directory is on external disk (firewire)

[KeithLScott]

Hi,

I recently moved my wife to a Mac mini. She's got enough data that I put her home directory on an external LaCie drive, but NOTHING (except cancel) works from the print dialog box. She has network connectivity to the printer, and can print a test page using the printer utility, but cannot print or generate a PDF file. My account (on the system drive) has no problems.

The firewire drive is pretty insistant on setting the 'ignore permissions on this drive' bit, and I made aliases to var and tmp at the root level of the firewire drive -- no joy.

Any help appreciated,

--keith

 

[KeithLScott]

Using the 'Bonjour Printers" submenu (which crashed the machine last time I tried it) to add a new printer seems to have corrected the printing issue. If anybody has a good explanation as to _why_, I'd appreciate it.

--keith

 

[Satcomer]

Using the 'Bonjour Printers" submenu (which crashed the machine last time I tried it) to add a new printer seems to have corrected the printing issue. If anybody has a good explanation as to _why_, I'd appreciate it.

--keith

That one is simple. In a computer (any computer) it finds devices and keeps a simple reference to find the path to that device for future adventures. You moved the path without doing telling the computer to where to look for it (moving your home folder where printing preferences are held).