Printers disappear, “server-error-service-unavailable” error

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My G5 at the office is running Tiger, and is on a Windows network. I had several printers set up to use, but one day they all simply disappeared from my print dialogs!

When I tried to add them again, the error “server-error-service-unavailable” would come up.

I found a solution here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107054

You must be logged in as an Admin user.
Follow these steps:

  1. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).
  2. At the prompt type: cd /var/spool/
  3. Press Return.
  4. Type: sudo mkdir cups
  5. Press Return.
  6. Type your Admin user password when prompted, then press Return.
  7. Type: sudo chown daemon:admin cups
  8. Press Return.
  9. Type: sudo chmod 700 cups
  10. Press Return.
  11. Quit Terminal.
  12. Restart the computer.