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10.4: How to disable Bonjour
Authored by: hj45lp on Oct 17, '05 02:57:20AM

Hi,

I tried to unload the Bonjour stuff with launchctl as suggested, but this caused a weird other problem (after rebooting, not immediately): my printing does not work anymore. I deleted all printers to make sure I'm not using a Bonjour printer, and reinstalled them using IP printing or AppleTalk. However, the process was *very* slow. After that, whenever hitting command-P for print dialog, in whatever application, the colourful spinning ball appears and it takes a minute before the print dialog comes up, and after that printing works.

I finally remembered I had disabled Bonjour, and immediately after re-enabling it, everything's back to normal.

My main motivation for disabling it is that I'm getting sick of iChat insisting upon each and every startup to ask me whether or not I want to login Bonjour. And I'd say yes if it wouldn't open a second iChat window just for that. Argh! Is there any way to disable Bonjour so that printing will still be fast or then is there a way to just get rid of Bonjour in iChat?

Oh, by the way, same symptoms whether I'm connected to the network or not, so this is extremely annoying, because I frequently use the save-as-pdf function of the print dialog.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

all the best,

Thomas



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10.4: How to disable Bonjour
Authored by: sjk on Oct 17, '05 05:08:21PM

I'm pretty sure there's an iChat preference to disable Bonjour but I can't check for it right now.



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