Comments on: Ireland’s Revenue Online Service (ROS) and Mac OS X

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:33:59 +0000

Is anyone else having a big problem with ROS form 11 for 2007 on their mac?

By: Eamon

Eamon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:31:50 +0000

Eventually got kcrypto and ros working on Mac Osx. But why are you all wondering ? Accenture implemented ROS system and they are a classic example of a consultancy that trains people on the job. Implementing obsolete technology at our expense.

Basically these big system projects are always poorly implemented and never thought through. But who cares – its the Irish taxpayer funding it. And these guys also did Pulse for the Garda ! Is that a glowing example of modern technology ?

And I do know.

By: Barry

Barry — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:04:21 +0000

Sorry, late arrival…

I have been a ROS user for 5 years!! EVERY year I have had problems in getting going. EVERY year I have had to get a new set of certs (latest message left on their helpdesk yesterday). I have also had probs with Krypto, etc. – in the ROS world OS and PC/MAC independence isn’t an option….In addition, since the very beginning, they have said they support Opera on PC and they haven’t, every year I start in Opera but end up in (yuk) Explorer in order to do my online return. I made a formal written complaint tat a State service should require me to use M$ products and got a waffle answer.

Signs on it, my password is now xxx….4!! 4th version…..

To be fair the helpdesk staff are very sympathetic, I get the impression they are ‘real’ IT people but somewhere in the hierarchy there is a M$ fan…..

Bye, Barry

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:08:40 +0000

Correction: That directory should read
/Users/yourusername/ROS/RosCerts

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:07:12 +0000

On OS X 10.4.10 (Tiger), under Firefox, the ROS login applet downloaded for me when I went to login.
I copied my certs into this directory (the ROS applet created this for me): /Users//ROS/RosCerts

Now I can login under Firefox and Safari – haven’t submitted anything yet, so I hope the signing works.

By: Insights » ROS vs. Linux: Making It Work

Insights » ROS vs. Linux: Making It Work — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:16:08 +0000

[...] other than “C:ROS”. Even if MacOS X is a supported platform, from the comments on a blog post from Tom Raftery in 2004, people are still having trouble using ROS under MacOS X in September 2006. Other people have tried [...]

By: anon

anon — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:51:34 +0000

ok – success!

…so… (using Mac OS 10.3.9 Safari v1.2) from the horse’s mouth…….

“You will need to create a folder called “extensions” in the following
location:

HARD DISK/ ACCOUNT NAME (i.e. USERNAME) /LIBRARY/ JAVA/ Create the folder
extensions in Java folder.

Once you have done this restart the Mac and click on the ROS homepage, enter
the login option and click on the link
“kcrypto & java” under login applet and let this install.

This should solve the problem you are currently experiencing.”

Hope this helps all….

By: anon

anon — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:30:13 +0000

….relieved that, at least there is this website to inform potential ROS customers with Mac OS platforms, that they are indeed not crazy! Having exactly the same issues here now as the previous discussion list people, in September 2006 and as the submission deadline looms……in the process of trying to crack this one and will keep you informed of any developments.Cheers

By: june mcgrane

june mcgrane — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:43:26 +0000

wow thanks i have been trying for ages with a helpline guy telling me that it is possible
this has been going on for ages
emailing back and forward with no luck and i have wasted so much time and energy
if the situation has changed since last year and i am just inept please tell me how to do it
i have a mac osx 10.3.9
thankyou

By: gpk

gpk — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:13:56 +0000

Having the same problem ! Can’t believe they state that Safari running on OS X is supported. Half a day wasted !

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:03:09 +0000

ROS works fine on Explorer running in Classic mode.

In OSX, I can get into ROS with Safari (once digital certs are stored in the root level of my user dirctory) but have problems signing returns.