In an update to my previous post about this, I have some changes to the procedure. Follow the procedure below, but in the “service creation” point, you have to change the parameters on the pathname. After “airprint.exe”, replace the “-s” with the following:

-R _ipp._tcp,_universal -s

If you already have AirPrint installed, check make sure you use “sc.exe Delete Airprint” at an Administrator level command prompt (or power shell, I suppose) to remove the current entry, then follow the instructions again.

Kudos to Guimon on the Apple Forums for the changes.

1. Install the app from this page
2. Do the stuff at this page, sans the iTunes stuff and change the pathname as described above.
3. Open the 2008 R2 firewall Control Panel
4. Right click on Bonjour Service, click Advanced tab, and check all three checkmarks (Domain, Public, Private)
5. Create a rule for the AirPrint.exe file from step 2 to match the Bonjour Service on step 4.
6. Print from your iPad
7. Profit.

1. Install the app from this page
2. Do the stuff at this page, sans the iTunes stuff
3. Open the 2008 R2 firewall Control Panel
4. Right click on Bonjour Service, click Advanced tab, and check all three checkmarks (Domain, Public, Private)
5. Create a rule for the AirPrint.exe file from step 2 to match the Bonjour Service on step 4.
6. Print from your iPad
7. Profit.

Have an iPad? On a WiFi Network? Using DD-WRT? Trying to stream Netflix and it won’t stream? It’s a DNS compatibility issue!

If you try to play Netflix titles or movies on your iPad and you have a problem where clicking on play brings you to “Preparing to view…”, the navigation bar sides down, shows you the Netflix app splash screen then instantly redirects you to the original page you were on, it’s an issue with DNSMasq in DD-WRT.

Solution: either disable DNSMasq on your DD-WRT based router, or manually code your ISP’s DNS server into your iPad WiFi settings. Even better: hard code OpenDNS or Google DNS into there (208.67.222.222 and 8.8.8.8 respectively).

It took me a month of hunting to find the solution to this. I’m reblogging the solution because the blog where I found the solution has a horrible PageRank, Inanis.net has an awesome PageRank, and maybe this will help others find the solution faster.

Original solution found at: http://jpwhitehome.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/netflix-stalls-on-ipad-problem-resolved/

That was, until some website using an East Timor top-level domain was hot linking to the ENTIRE LOCAL COPY of Inanis Glass on my server.

Apache mod_rewrite fixed that. They are now permanently and forever rickrolled. Have a nice day!

(I just hope the rule doesn’t rickroll my own site… )

1. Grab this file.
2. Extract to a folder somewheres
3. Read how to modify UltraVNC SC to do what you need it to do. http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/sc/helpdesk.html
4. In SC_VNC.au3, replace the if-else-endif block with: Run(@ComSpec & ' /c "' & @TempDir & '\SC_VNC_Temp_Files\winvnc.cmd '& @OSversion &'"', @TempDir & "\SC_VNC_Temp_Files\", @SW_HIDE)
5. Then, in winvnc.cmd, replace the if statement at the top with:
   IF “%1″==”WIN_VISTA” goto vistafound
   IF “%1″==”WIN_7″ goto vistafound
   IF “%1″==”WIN_LONGHORN” goto vistafound
6. When done, run Compile.cmd and you will get your UVNC SC file – that works with Vista and Seven.

Instructions snarfed from http://mondotech.blogspot.com/2009/02/reverse-vnc-helpdesk.html

I did some hunting and found the following link most helpful: HowTo: Automount NTFS Drive

Essentially, the fix goes like this:

At Terminal:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install ntfs-config

Then make sure your NTFS drives arent otherwise mounted, run ntfs-config, (I had to do this from an Alt+F2 window, because it didnt pop a selection into my Applications menu) select your paritions, name them, hit Apply, select write suport and click apply.

Magic. I love it when someone thinks of something and has a solution I can pop in quickly.

UPDATE: Just found the NTFS Configuration tool on my “System > Administration” menu. Should have read down one more line on the original page. Go figure.

I have found that in most cases either userinit.exe is missing/broken/corrupt or the registry is pointing to something other than userinit.exe and -that- file is missing/broken/corrupt.

To check, get access to the hard drive of the broken computer in “offiline mode” (i.e. remove it and attach it to another computer) and check inside the x:\windows\system32 folder (whatever drive letter and windows folder this particular drive is using) and make sure userinit.exe is there. If it is there, compare it aganst the copy on a working computer. If they don’t match, backup the one on the broken hard drive and copy the good one from the working computer to the broken one.

After that, try the registry. Load the “SOFTWARE” hive from the broken hard drive (x:\windows\system32\config\SOFTWARE) into regedit on the working computer and browse to LOADEDHIVE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ and make sure the userinit value on the right points to the proper path and filename for where userinit.exe is residing on the broken machine with a COMMA after the pathname (usually “C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,”)

Unload the hive, disconnect the hard drive, reattach to “broken” computer and see what happens.

The different network card started having the same problem. I did some research, and thought it might be related to the “network slows down while playing audio” bug in Vista, but that was mostly fixed in SP1. Also, disabling the Multimedia Class Scheduler didn’t fix the problem.

I tried Running Process Explorer during the slowdown to pinpoint the location of the problem. It pointed to massive CPU usage during Deferred Procedure Calls: a classic kernel driver problem.

Since it wasn’t my network hardware, I started disabling other hardware. Nothing affected it. Then I tried playing with things that could interfere anywhere along the file I/O path. I tinkered around and found that if I uninstalled AVG 8, the problem would go away completely.

Seems like AVG8 and Vista don’t like each other too much.