Adding a User Account

Simple question but going nuts trying to find simple answer - once I have created a second account user on my Mac where do I find the instructions that allow me to share photos and itunes etc ??? The situation is that for the first time I am sharing my Mac with my wife and therefore we will share music and photos etc. Big thanks PW

Also:
*iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users*
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
If practical for your family, you might instead consider having three user accounts - His, Hers, and Ours! The "Ours" account would carry all the family music, photos, movies, etc. Each of you could rapidly go in and out of the Ours account via [Fast User Switching|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1787.html] while remaining logged into your individual accounts. That would be very easy to set up, and would avoid any permissions issues - whoever is logged in as "Ours" could add to and edit all the family photos and music, as well as just look and listen.

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Added a user account, now my iMac is acting up.

Added a user account simply for a second iTunes library and so no crossover with contacts, favorites, etc. would occur on the family's iPhones. The first problem I noticed is when waking the display from sleep, the screen saver being used will be frozen on the screen and you have to use the mouse to "uncover" the user accounts. Over the past week or so, my problems have gotten worse... The pinwheel will appear for 10+ minutes while doing something as simple as searching for a document, many of the files on my desktop disappeared (luckily i had them backed up), and the computer will freeze with no recovery, forcing me to do a hard shut down (eek!). All software/hardware is up to date, I have repaired my permissions several times, and I even deleted my windows partition. The computer is hardly ever under a great amount of stress.. The most it is doing at one time is having a web browser or two open, mail, iCal, and iTunes. Could this all be because of an empty user account? I have plenty of room to spare on the computer and I haven't done anything drastic to the computer lately... Any insight would be appreciated.

Tell us about the actual Mac. What model? What version of Mac OS X? Is all the software up-to-date? Does it have 3rd party RAM? Is your LAN wired or wireless? Etc, etc, etc.
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Adding New User Account

My parents use an iMac w/Intel Core 2 Duo running Leopard (10.5.4). When they set up the machine initially they set up a single account (we'll call it UserA) - which is the administrator account and the account that both of them use. I know this is a bad practice but this is where I am working from. It had not been a problem for them up until now as my mother's primary use for the computer had been Safari and using RDC to connect to her Windows box at work.
However, my mother is looking to have her own account set up so that she can have her documents, mail, ect. set up separately. The problem comes in with the apps that they share (i.e. iPhoto, iTunes). I would like both user accounts to see iTunes and iPhoto the same way. The have built up their music and photo collection collectively and would both like to be able to access the same libraries. I have gone as far as creating a new user (UserB) for my mother (as a standard account). I copied her documents from the administrator account (UserA) into her documents folder. What is the best approach to sharing iTunes and iPhoto libraries across the two user accounts? Thank you.

there are several ways to do that.
1. the easiest is to enable sharing in both itunes and iphoto. This will allow user A to see libraries of user B and vise versa. However, they won't be able to add stuff to each other libraries. also, this will only work when both of them are logged in at the same time. so you'll have to enable fast user switching in accounts preferences and keep both users logged in.
2. second easiest. if you have an external drive (or a partition of an internal drive) you can move itunes and iphoto libraries there and turn off ownership on that partition. select the partition, eneter command+i and in the info popup check the box "ignore ownership on this drive" at the bottom.
after you've moved itunes and iphoto libraries you need to point the apps to the new locations. hold option and start iphoto. You'll get a dialog asking you to choose the library. do the same for itunes.
3. you can use the method from [ Király 's post in this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2719139&#2719139].
Skip step 3) that he describes - it's not needed in Leopard.

Adding Local User Account Alongside RADIUS

Greetings!
Currently every Cisco device authenticates with a RADIUS server we have on campus. I'm trying to add a local user account onto our switches and routers so that if the RADIUS server is unavailable or the switch looses connection we are able to use another login to access what we need. However when I add aaa authorization and authentication commands (no default) I think the switch cannot identify what is a RADIUS login and what is a local login. Depending on how we move commands around local will work and RADIUS will not, or RADIUS will work and local will not. Any suggestions on how to get both to work at the same time?
Thanks!
-Noah

Perhaps I do not have a correct understanding of what you are asking. But let me explain a little and if that does not address your issue then perhaps you can provide some clarification.
You can not have Radius and the local account work at the same time - at least not in the sense that you can login and enter either one and expect it to work. What you can do (and what most people do) is to define one as primary (usually Radius) and one as backup (usually local account). Then when you attempt to login the device will attempt to use Radius, and if the Radius server is not available then it will use the local account.
If that does not clarify your issue then please help us understand better what your issue is.
HTH
Rick

Access Denied creating user accounts through vba

Hello,
I have a MS-Access application that runs on a Windows 2012 server. My customer logs into the server using RDP. The MS-Access application is started up automatically by means of the environment variable in the user settings. The customer needs to be able
to create new windows users for this application, simply by clicking a button.
The VBA script to create users works, because when I start up the MS-Access application with my own logged on Administrators account, the new users get created. If my customer tries it, he gets 'Access Denied' error. I have added his user account to
the Power Users group, but that did not solve the problem. I also tried to make him member of the DCOM Users Group, the 'Access Denied' error remains...
I do not want to give him administrator priviliges, because he is 'just a customer'...
What do I need to do for this setup to work? I tried altering some DCom settings, but frankly I do not have enough knowledge to feel comfortable with this. Hope anybody can help me out here...
best regards, Rob

Is this a standalone server? Only administrators can create user accounts, so there is no work around for that. You could look at something that has the administrator account/password stored and launch PSEXEC or something else in an elevated session behind
the scenes but that is a security volunerability because the credentials are stored.
If the account is being created in an Active Directory environment you could delegate permissions to the appropriate OU for your customer.
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Adding Music From Other User Account

Hi, quick question. We just bought our iMac and we are trying to figure out the music. After collecting all the music from various computers we put them on an external hard drive. We then added it all onto the main user (the only administrator). What we are trying to do is add the music onto the rest of the user accounts. Is that possible?
Thanks

Are you logged in with only one user?
You have to quit iTunes before opening it in another user account.
In the Finder, go to /Users/Shared/ folder.
On the iTune sfolder, right click - get info.
Scroll to the Sharing & Permissions tab.
Make sure Everyone is set to *Read & Write*.
Click the Gear icon and select *Apply to enclosed items*.

No Start Menu, removed and added User Account then no "Built In" Apps - Build 1049

So quick history, was having problem with start menu not working under build 1044 for the second user I'd added to the machine (Microsoft account). Rebuilt using "Remove everything and reinstall windows". Seemed to resolve the problem for the newly
added user and was still working under the original user (also Microsoft Account). Then along came build 1049 and now the same start menu issue occurred for the original user account. So, as both were setup as admins, removed the original
user account, restarted, checked all data removed and added the account again.
First attempt added the account as a local account then added the Microsoft account after login, result = start menu working but no "built in" apps (store beta, insider app etc).
So removed account again and added again, this time using Microsoft account immediately, logged in and exactly the same result.
Any ideas how to resolve?

You cannot use the Start Menu logging in as anything that would be in the BUILTIN\administrator group on the computer. I had the same problem when I added the machine to a domain, thus domain admins is in the BUILTIN\Administrator group.
The reason being that the Windows 10 Start Menu is an appxpackage, and you can't run appxpackages using the built-in administrator account. As is the case for example with Windows Store. It doesn't however give you a warning message, you
just click on the windows button and nothing happens.
This is just total madness imv. It kind of made sense when all the appxpackages where apps, but now they include parts of the OS, the OS is essentially non-functional when you log in using anything in the BUILTIN\ administrator group.
If you really want to blow your mind, go into PowerShell and run the command: get-appxpackage|remove-appxpackage
If you run that on Windows 8.1 it will remove all the bloatware apps for the logged on user. Run it in Windows 10 and it removes various parts of the OS for that user as well, such as the Start Menu!

Adding a mail account for second user

I am the administrator on this imac. I use mac mail and have a mobileme account as well. I have another user on the computer, who has just signed up for mobile me, and wants to retrive her mail from the imac when logged into her account. How do I set up mac mail on the imac, so the app in her doc only reflects her email account? If I add her mobileme address to accounts in mail preferences on the imac, her mail is showing up in my mail page? How can I get the mail app to launch in her account on the imac, and keep it separate from mine? Thanks.

As long as you are logged into her user account on the iMac, then creating accounts in the Mail app should only be her mail.
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Adding music to iTunes from a different user account on the same computer

I have recently begun using a PowerMacG5 at my college and I imported some music, all from CDs into iTunes under my user account. Then I discovered that this Mac already had music in a different location under a different user account. How do I merge these two libraries together so that both have the same music, same library? Or is that impossible?

hi Zags!
this document should be helpful:
iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
love, b

Macbook pro seems not to be shut down normally after adding one more user account

after i have created a new user account and i tried to shut it down, it does not appear a white background on the screen to let me know if the pc was in the process. After few second the screen becomes black and it shuts down.
I tried to turn on the pc and it works normally but when i shuts my pc down, the same problem appears.
I have already delected one user account but the problem still appears.
I am not sure is it ok or not?
i am a new user to apple product.

I experienced the same problem. What I noticed that problem seems to occur more often when bluetooth is switched on. For instance, today I wanted to switch off bluetooth connectivity before switching off laptop completely. The bluetooth icon in menu bar from some strange reason froze completely, rest of programs and OS were working fine. When I wanted to switch off the laptop it happened again, it froze and the only way to switch it off was to hold power button.

I added a user on my account and made it the admin. Now when I need admin ability, I cannot remember that password. My 'general' user is no longer an admin so I cannot use that. Please help.

Changing admin password

Forgot Your Account Password
For Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks
    Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.
     Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow
     instructions in the dialog window that will appear.
     Or see:
       Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password
       OS X Mountain Lion- Reset a login password,
       OS X Mavericks- Solve password problems,
       OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.
For Snow Leopard and earlier with installer DVD
     Mac OS X 10.6- If you forget your administrator password,
     OS X- Changing or resetting an account password (Snow Leopard and earlier).
For Snow Leopard and earlier without installer DVD
    How to reset your Mac OS X password without an installer disc | MacYourself
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Added user accounts all freeze (spinning beach ball)

Why do all user accounts (other than my main administrator account) freeze after logging in. The Finder freezes with the spinning beach ball just when the account seems to have logged in properly. I created new accounts (thinking that my old accounts were corrupted), but the new accounts did the same thing. My main user account is fine. I haven't used the other accounts for a while now, so why would they suddenly have problems now?! Is something corrupted in my system?!
It almost seems like the Finder is waiting for something to load, but it never gets loaded-so it gives me the beach ball while it waits. Is this what is happening? I can't even force the finder to quit. I have to force the computer to shut off by using the power switch.

Hi Paul
Try this.
Determine the Username for one of these other accounts.
Write down this chosen AccountUsername.
In your main admin account, Open Terminal, found in Applications/Utilities, and enter into terminal this command, (substitute the theAccountUsername with the actual account name you wrote down)
sudo rm /Users/theAccountUsername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
then type in your admin password. It will not appear as you type, then press Return, then type
exit
and quit Terminial.
Log out and log into that usernames's account that you just worked on.
See how that goes.
Note: if you need to Force Quit, try the four key press of Control + Option + Command + Escape to open the Force Quit Dialogue box and try and Force Quit Finder. That may give you a chance to exit normally.
Also by doing those hard shutdowns you may need to run Repair Disk from the boot Installation Disk just to check that the file structure is OK.
regards roam

I am having trouble adding a gmail account on my iPad..I keep receiving same response that the user name and password are in correct and that mail cannot be retrieved. I know the username and password are correct. Any suggestions?

Having trouble adding a gmail account on my iPad. This would be a second email account. Keep receiving message that says username or password are incorrect but I know the are accurate. Any suggestions?

You might be better off deleting the account and starting all over again with the account. Here is a gmail help site that will take you through all of the set up steps.
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702

How do I move all files from one user account into another on my Mac?

So I am a new Mac owner (MacBook Pro, OS X 10.9.4) so I don't know about a lot of the tricks and settings I can use yet.
I just used the Migration Assistant last night to transfer files from my old laptop onto my Mac, but I've already been using the Mac for just over a week meaning I have a user account with all my preferences set, music added to iTunes, photos added, bookmarks, etc. The transfer last night created a whole new user account for all of the files from my old laptop, rather than importing them into the account I've been using. Just wondering if there is a quick and easy way to somehow merge these user account into one, or something similar. Hope I explained properly!

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, provide /Users/ as the path, drag one account's home folder to the other's desktop, and move the items inside it to the desired locations.
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Sharing an iTunes Library across multiple user account and a network.

Sharing an iTunes Music Library across multiple user accounts.
Hello Everybody!
Firstly, this was designed to be run in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It will not work with earlier versions of Mac OS X! Sorry.
Here's a handy tip for keeping your hard drive neat and tidy, it also saves space, what in effect will be done is an iTunes music library will be shared amongst multiple users on the same machine. There are advantages and disadvantages to using this method.
• Firstly I think it might be worthwhile to state the advantages and disadvantages to using this approach.
The advantages include:
- Space will be saved, as no duplicate files will occur.
- The administrator will be able to have complete control over the content of the iTunes library, this may be useful for restricting the content of the Library; particularly for example if computer is being used at and education institution, business or any other sort of institution where things such as explicit content would be less favorable.
- The machine will not be slowed by the fact that every user has lots of files.
The disadvantages to this system include.
- The fact that the account storing the music will have to be logged in, and iTunes will have to be active in that account.
- If the account housing the music is not active then nobody can use the iTunes library.
- There is a certain degree of risk present when an administrator account must be continually active.
- Fast User Switching must be enabled.
Overview:
A central account controls all music on the machine/network, this is achieved by storing iTunes files in a public location as opposed to in the user's directory. In effect the system will give all users across the machine/network access to the same music/files without the possibility of files 'doubling up' because two different users like the same types of music. This approach saves valuable disk space in this regard and may therefore prove to be useful in some situations.
This is a hearty process to undertake, so only follow this tutorial if you're willing to go all the way to the end of it.
Process:
Step 1:
Firstly, we need to organize the host library, I tidied mine up, removing excess playlists, random files, things like that. this will make thing a bit easier in the later stages of this process.
Once the library is tidied up, move the entire "iTunes" folder from your Home directory to the "//localhost" directory (The Macintosh HD) and ensure that files are on the same level as the "Applications", "Users", "Library" and "System" directories; this will ensure that the files in the library are available to all users on the machine (this also works for networks)
Optionally you can set the ownership of the folder to the 'administrator' account (the user who will be hosting the library.), you may also like to set the permissions of 'you can' to "Read & Write" (assuming that you are doing this through the user who will host the library); secondly you should set the "Owner" to the administrator who will be hosting the library and set their "access" to "Read & Write" (this will ensure that the administrator has full access to the folder). The final part of this step involves setting access for the "Others" tab to "Read Only" this will ensure that the other users can view but not modify the contents on the folder.
Overview:
So far we have done the following steps:
1. Organized the host library.
2. Placed the iTunes directory into a 'public' directory so that other users may use it. (this step is essential if you plan on sharing the library across multiple accounts on the same machine. NOTE: this step is only necessary if you are wanting to share you library across multiple accounts on the same machine, if you simply want to share the music across a network, use the iTunes sharing facility.
3. set ownership and permissions for the iTunes music folder.
Step 2:
Currently the administrator is the only user who can use this library, however we will address this soon. In this step we will enable iTunes music sharing in the administrator's account, this will enable other users to access the files in the library.
If you are not logged in as the administrator, do so; secondly, open iTunes and select "Preferences" from the "iTunes" menu, now click the "Sharing" tab, if "share my library on my local network" is not checked, the radio buttons below this will now become active, you may choose to share the entire libraries contents, or share only selected content.
Sharing only selected content may be useful if their is explicit content in the library and minors use the network or machine that the library is connected to.
If you have selected "share entire library" go to Step 3, if you have selected share "share selected playlists" read on.
After clicking "share selected playlists" you must then select the playlists that you intend to share across your accounts and network. Once you have finished selecting the playlists, click "OK" to save the settings.
Overview:
In this step we:
1. Enabled iTunes sharing in the administrator's account, now, users on the local network may access the iTunes library, however, users on the same machine may not.
Step 3:
Now we will enable users on the same machine to access the library on the machine. This is achieved by logging in as each user, opening iTunes, opening iTunes preferences, and clicking "look for shared music". now all users on the machine may also access the library that the administrator controls.
This in effect will mean that the user will not need to use their user library, it will be provided to them via a pseudo network connection.
As a secondary measure, I have chosen to write a generic login script that will move any content from the user's "Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" directory to the trash and then empties the user's trash.
This is done through the use of an Automator Application: this application does the following actions.
1. Uses the "Finder" action "Get Specified Finder Items"
1a. The user's "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" folder
2. Uses the "Finder" action "Get Folder Contents"
3. Uses the "Finder" action "Move to Trash"
4. Uses the "Automator" action "Run AppleScript"
4a. with the following:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
empty trash
end tell
return input
end run
IMPORTANT: Once the script is adapted to the user account it must be set as a login item. in order to keep the script out of the way i have placed it in the user's "Library" directory, in "Application Support" under "iTunes".
Overview:
Here we:
1. Enabled iTunes sharing in the user accounts on the host machine, in effect allowing all users of the machine to view a single iTunes library.
2. (Optional) I have created a login application that will remove any content that has been added to user iTunes libraries, this in effect stops other users of the machine from adding music and files to iTunes.
Step 4:
If it is not already enabled, open system preferences and enable Fast User Switching in Accounts Options.
Summary:
We have shared a single iTunes library across multiple user account, while still allowing for network sharing. This method is designed to save space on machines, particularly those with smaller hard drives.
I hope that this hint proves to be helpful and I hope everybody will give me feedback on my process.
regards,
Pete.
iBook G4; 60GB Hard Drive, 512MB RAM, Airport Extreme Mac OS X (10.4.6) iWork & iLife '06, Adobe CS2, Final Cut Pro. Anything and Everything!!!

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