Lobby Ambassador can't email guest user accounts via WCS

WCS is configured with SMTP server under Administration-Settings-Mail Server Configuration and test is successful and it sends e-mail alerts out no problem. However, when Lobby Ambassador creates a new guest account and clicks on the e-mail link to email it out, this message pops-up: 'Email Server is not configured.Contact Network Administrator'.
Any ideas?

by poking around I've found an answer. Even though we have a single email server, right after I've added the same server as a secondary email server, notifications started working. Seems to be a WCS bug.

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Hopefully your original user account was an "administrator". I have two admin accts in case one admin. acct gets "trashed.
Lets see what other forum members offer: my solution requires use of terminal and works. CLI (Command Line Interface) might be intimidating for you but we'll see what others possibly offer.
As I say the solution I have works well and will allow you to create new user(s) replacing your former users whatever type they were. I promise to check back today if no solution to you is offered...
Let 'er rip and...
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Having trouble setting up Guest users account email address

Hi.I've been using my Macmail with my administrative account for some time now.I recently set up a guest user account for a visiting reletive.I wanted to get the "Macmail" e-mail program up and running as well so they could use the same e-mail address that I use with my administrative account.After clicking on the Macmail icon in the dock and going through the steps to set up the account......I was then able to successfully send out and recieve a test e-mail. However...........after logging out of the guest account and back to my administrative account and then logging back into the guest account again.........when I now click on the Macmail icon in the dock........the e-mail program starts asking me to go through the steps to set an email program up again.It seems to have "forgotten" or disregarded that I already did this the last time I was logged in.I'm wondering why its doing this and how do I permanently set up this email account so that it doesn't disappear every time I log out? Thanks for any assistance.

Files created while using a guest account are deleted when the user logs out. A temporary home folder is created for the guest’s files. When the they log out, the home folder and it’s contents are deleted.
Instead create a standard non-admin account...
Create a new User go to System Preferences > Accounts > "+"
-mj

Scheduling WCS Guest User Accounts

Hi all,
I am question concerning scheduling WCS guest user accounts. I would appreciate having opportunity to schedule WCS guest account as a lobby ambassador. I know it is possible to do that but only in case that you allow (as administrator) for the user "lobby ambassador" set up "lifetime" to unlimited. If you set up a limited lifetime in "Defaults for creating Guest User accounts", the lobby ambassador is not able to schedule WCS guest account because this options is missing.
Is it possible to do that without this restriction?
The second issue is the email which consists of the guest user account credentials. Each time the scheduled time comes up, the guest user account credentials are emailed to the specified email address.
Is it possible to send the credentials right after creating the guest user account and not when the scheduled time comes up which can be a week later?
Jozef

No this should not be done because, the credentials are pushed by WCS to the controller only when the time comes.
Once the WLC confirms the user is created, then WCS goes ahead and send you the credentials.
Technically this could be added to WCS, it would be a PERs : Personnal Enhancement Request to be filed from your System Engineer, Account / Sales team

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Dear Sir,
We will plan guest solution for my wireless network ( we have WLC5508 and 1142 access point ), our requirement is :
1. guest user access to an wireless guest SSID, open browser, it will redirect to web-auth page.
2. The web-auth page have a url and if user click the url, guest user then connect to another web page, guest user can input some information ( for examples : username, email, cell phone ,,, ) to create guest user account self. The expiration of the user account fix to one day.
3. the username and random password created for the guest user then send by SMS or email to guest user.
4. Guest user can use the username and password he received to login web-auth page to use guest wireless network
5. User activity information ( user create, login/logout, expire time, user IP address ... ) should be log.
Please help to verify the ISE with base license can meet our requirement. ( especially item 2 & 3 )
Best Regards,

Hi,
Guest registration is covered with base licenses.
Here is some material that will bring you up to speed:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5712/ps11637/ps11195/qa_c67-658591.html
Base:
Capabilities: Basic network access and guest access
Network deployment support: Wired, wireless, and VPN
License prerequisite: None
Perpetual license
Licenses are available for 100, 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 2500, 3500, 5000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000, and 100,000 endpoints
Tarik Admani
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I see that the lobby admin account on the Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 5500 series can only set the lifetime for guest users to 30 days: is there a way to change this?
Is there a limit to how long the lifetime for a guest user can be set to using the admin account?

From the Lifetime drop-down lists, choose the amount of time (in days, hours, minutes, and seconds) that this guest user account is to remain active.
A value of zero (0) for all four text boxes creates a permanent account.
So if you want to create a account for lifetime, enter 0 on all 4 boxes.
From CLI also you can see this option too :
(DOT5) >config netuser lifetime test ?
<lifetime> Enter lifetime between 60 to 31536000 seconds or 0 for no limit.
Hope it helps.
-Thanks
Vinod
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Guest user account logged into while away from house/computer!!!

Warning: I am not a tech-pro!
Okay, I have a 2011 Mac Book Pro running OS X LION 10.75 (11G63) unsure what those last numbers mean but they were there so I thought perhaps it might be helpful to add them.
Recently I moved into a granny flat and pay $10 a week to use their unlimited internet wifi. I log into my wifi through this device called a WiFi Repeater? It's plugged into the wall in my unit, as I warned I am not incredibly tech savvy so I am only guessing when I say I suppose this extends the main wifi signal from the actual home owners upstairs big modem? Any who.... A few times I have seen in the Finder Memu ot says 'Shared' and under that 'Wendys PC' (Wendy is the homeowner) then if you click on it it tries to connect but won't or there is a 'Connect As' option which brings up a little screen saying - connect as wendy, which requires a password or connect as guest which doesn't look like it requires a password- I'm not certain because I've never tried to connect any further, I only pressed that initial connect button when I had mentioned to Wendy I could see her PC & she asked me to press connect & prove I could not in fact connect (I'm starting to despise the word 'connect' since having to type this post about connection). So... We just kind of let it go. It did really worry me that Wendy (who worked in the tech field for years in particular with an Internet provider, could possibly connect to my computer and nosey through all my files- and to be honest, that would not actually suprise me. She is incredibly 'inquisitive'... And that's putting it mildly. I do have a password on my Mac Book Pro but I don't think that would be that hard to break through/hack if you have the knowledge/software. And yes, I do have confidential files on there! Banking/business/private photos (I'm trying to lose weight so take one nude photo per day to do a time lapse of myself in a year or two- obviously for myself not for others eyes lol and I would literally die in the *** if someone ever saw these). So basically I have good reason to protect my privacy. As does everyone! Anyway my first question is - Could she log in and how could I tell if she had? Now, the second part of this ridiculously long question (my apologies) is I was logged into my personal account all last night & this morning. As I stated- it IS password protected. The user account is not. Before I went out (and I can't actually recall if I closed the lid or not when I rushed out today... Usually I do but maybe I didnt... Whatevs) So, I get home and activate the screen by moving my finger on the touch pad and lo & behold I'm straight away looking at a totally different screen? It took me a few seconds to realise why my desktop looked completely different with none of my files etc... It was - as you've probably guessed- because I was in fact in the guest user account. Now, I didn't even have to click ON 'Guest User' as I normally have to. When you turn my Mac on it always comes up with - 'My Full Name' (one account login) and then 'Guest User' (the second account login option).... So you HAVE to choose which one you want! But my screen was straight away logged into the Guest Users desktop! I did NOT do this guys! So, of course now I'm extremely concerned that either she, her husband or their son whom is visiting for the weekend - have either a) logged in remotely on one of their computers or b) have come into my home and tried logging in & then forgot to log out of the guest account. I want to know if there is any way to find out what they did, what they opened if they did, how to stop it from both happening at all or if my suspicions are in fact happeninh AGAIN And I guess on a more personal, less tech involved note - how would you all deal with such a situation? Let it go? Or be upfront about the fears/concerns I am experiencing since moving in just over a month ago. AND most importantly - IS there any other reason -other than someone physically logging into my guest user account & failing/forgetting to log back out so that when I got home & activated my screen I was actually looking at the guest user desktop's account instead of the Mail application screen in the 'My Full Name' password protected user account where I had actually left it before rushing out.... Like, is there ANY other possibly explanation for my user account being logged into when I'd left it on my own account t before I left that doesn't include someone in the house hacking/breaking into/snooping through my Mac? Also- you should understand that when I leave my Mac for just a few minutes I have it set up so that the computer screen 'sleeps' (I'm assuming that's the correct term) so that if for instance -exactly like this morning- I have to rush out and don't want to/don't have time to save work/quit applications/shut down etc... I can walk away leaving the laptop as is knowing within a few minutes the screen saver comes up (and if that's ledr for long enough it goes into sleep mode) and no one can actually enter my private account without my password. I feel safe knowing that.
Sorry.... I FELT safe.
I'm truly sorry for how long-winded this question has become, I simply wanted to give anyone possibly willing to help me sort out this issue, as much information as possible. I think I have actually only posted here once before (I find these sort of forums quite intimidating) and I often see people getting bashed for not providing enough information. So, I'm pretty sure I'll get picked on for too many words if anything!!?! Lol
Thank you, in advance for your help!
Olivia;-).

Ouch.
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I want to get rid of my guest user account. It will not let me delete it from the user

I did not have the guest user account available and then after I changed some of my setting for my mail, I noticed that when I logged back in the guest user icon was present. I do not want to have this guest user account on my log in screen. I tried to delete it from my system preferences but all it does is disable the guest user but the icon still appears. I need some help!

http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/13/disable-guest-user-account-mac-os-x-10-7-2-login- screen/
Thanks to Brad Caldwell for the questions and screenshot via Twitter, you can follow us there too.
How to disable that “Guest User” from appearing at the OS X 10.7.2 login screen
Open System Preferences
Click on “Security & Privacy”
Click the lock in the lower corner and type in your administrative password to unlock the control panel
Check the box next to “Disable restarting to Safari when screen is locked”
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Given that we did not log out from the quest account for a couple of days, i am hopeful that the guest account was backed up by time capsule. I cannot find the guest account on the backed up time capsule. Does anyone have any suggestions whether TC backs up the guest account and if so, how can I locate it in TC.
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Did you have the main account logged in as well as guest at the time? Do you have TM setup in the guest account?
It is very unlikely TM backed it up. If it did simply mount the sparsebundle in finder and go through all the folders until you find the guest user account and check if there is anything there. If not sorry it was never backed up.
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Pondini has all the info for recovery of files from TM.
See Q15 here. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
There is a section for iphoto.. but IMHO it won't be backed up.

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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
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The guest user account keeps appearing on my login screen and i want to get rid of it, i do not want others to be able to access my account. How am i able to do this? I have tried to go on through the user section and nothing i seem to do in there helps. Please help!

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Can you merge two user accounts on a macbook? my wife has created a new user on her new macbook air then, inadvertently, created a second one when using the migration tool. 1st a/c has her office 365 install, while 2nd has her itunes database, docs and contacts. What is the best way forward to get everything into the one account? Not sure if the office 365 will allow another installation into the second account, otherwise would just do that and delete the first, if that is possible?

There is no merge but you can move data from one account to another via the Shared folder. Data is copied from Shared. Watch your free space when copying. These are large files. Do one at a time if you are on a small drive. After making copy, delete from other users before you start next copy.
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