10.6.5 Sharing Nightmares

A company next door to us use OS X Server and call on us for help now and again but since updating their server to 10.6.5 it appears to have totally ruined their server. Their first problem was that they couldn't connect to it at all but that I fixed with the certificate fix found in other posts but now they have noticed that everyone can see each others home areas and for the life of me I've no idea what has happened. It appears to have corrupted all the permissions on the Users folder so that they are all very random including adding Workgroup to the ACL but even if I remove the Workgroup from ACL others can still see everyones private files.
Thank god we haven't updated our server yet, it appears to be a complete nightmare this 10.6.5 update.

I am just planning to upgrade the Xserve here. Your experience is really scaring to me.
We're currently using an Xserve to do AFP sharing among ~70 users. 10.6.4 seems working well, except the spotlight. Users can't find all the related items, just some of them. Even rebuild the index doesn't work out. Are you experiencing similar problem?

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  • Home Sharing Nightmare !!

    Hi There,
    Here is what is happening, any help greatly received....
    My wife has a Pc with windows seven.
    I have a MBP. Running Mountain Lion.
    We both have ITunes 11...
    I want to share some music I recently bought with her. However the PC will not see my library. My Macbook comes up with HER LIbrary, and i am able to inport songs from her, but we just can't get it to go the other way!!!.. Also her IPhone can see and stream my music...!!
    1.Home sharing is turned on on both machines. Both Computers are authorised for BOTH ITunes accounts.We have turned HS off and on again.
    2.File sharing is turned on on my computer.
    3.Bonjour settings are correct on the PC
    4. I have unchecked The IVp6 box in windows....
    5. PLEASE HELP !!!! ANYONE.....
    Many Thanks Aaron

    Via OTA, over the air icloud service.
    you had contact the ipod touch with your parents devices, this made a relationship on the adress book who enable them to send you notes and more via iCloud, other solution is that they sent you via mail or imesse.
    Message was edited by: mgargallo

  • HT3819 Home Sharing Nightmare

    Hi,
    Hopefully someone can help!!!
    I've set up home sharing using the same apple ID on 2 iPhone 4's an iPad 3rd Gen and AppleTV 2nd Gen. It's all set up within my apple account and is showing all of the devices but under the Shared heading in iTunes none of the devices appear?????

    No points for marking your own posts as correct.
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  • TS4097 we have multiple users in our family and multiple devices all sharing one itunes account.  i think we are all synced to one icloud account and it is a nightmare....contacts lost, text messags showing up on multiple devises etc.  how do we fix this?

    We have our family sharing one itunes account.  we have 3 iphones, 2 macbook airs, 2 ipads and 1 mac.  I am not sure how we even got started on the icloud but somehow we did and everything is a mess.  The ipads are showing the text messages, the contacts are all combined, the apps that my duaghter downloads are appearing on all devices.  how do we fix this so contacts are not shared, messages are not shared and apps are not automatically synced to all devises?

    You have two different issues going on.  You are getting each other's messages because you are sharing the Same Apple ID for iMessage.  This can be corrected by going to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive on add the devices and doing one of the following:
    Either uncheck the email address shown under "You can be reached by iMessage at" on all of your devices; or
    If you want to continue to receive iMessages at this email address on one of your devices, on all of the other ones tap the Apple ID at the top, sign out, then sign back in using a different Apple ID (so all devices will be using a different Apple ID for iMessage).  Note: you can continue to share an Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and App stores.  It does not need to be the same as the ID you are using for iMessage, FaceTime and other services.
    The second issue is that you are sharing the same iCloud account on your devices.  When you do this any data you sync with the shared iCloud account such as contacts is merged and will appear on all devices connected to the account.  To fix this you both need to have separate iCloud accounts (you can continue to share the same Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and app stores). 
    First decide which device(s) will be keeping the current iCloud account.  On the one(s) that will be changing accounts, if you have any photos in photo stream that in your camera roll or backed up somewhere else that you want to keep on the device(s), save these to the camera roll by opening the photo stream album in the thumbnail view, tapping Edit, then tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share and tap Save to Camera Roll. 
    Once this is done, go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from this device, not from iCloud.  The device(s) that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.)  When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On [iDevice].  Next, set up a new iCloud account using a separate Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom).  Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge.  This will upload the data to the new account.  Repeat this process for all the devices that you need to migrate to new accounts.
    When finished, to un-merge the data in your accounts you will have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want (such as deleting the other person's contacts from your account, and vice versa).

  • We just bought our boys iPad minis.  We have a "family ipad" now with lots of music and apps the boys love.  Will syncing them to icloud cause a nightmare with calendars, music, and emails etc being shared?

    We just bought our children 2 ipad minis.  We have a "family ipad" now that contains lots of their apps, music, books etc.  I am afraid to connect the minis to icloud for fear they will also sync our calendars, email, etc.  Does anyone have experience with a family using icloud and do you recommend starting over with everyone having their own account or merging the family?

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    To begin with, I would like to try to explain Apple's confusing nomenclature in regard to iCloud.
    Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud too.
    You can use the same Apple ID (account) to login to both iCloud and iTunes, but you don't need to and often users will login to each service using a different ID.
    The part that you need to remember is that the services available when you log into iCloud are completely different and unrelated to those when you log in to iTunes. Your iCloud login enables mail, contacts, calendars, find my phone, Back to My Mac, Documents & Data sharing and photostream, it does not affect any of your iTunes services.

  • File & folder sharing with privileges on my network does not work. What is wrong?

    My Timecapsule is creating a network between my iMac with OS 10.7.5 and my Macbook Pro Retina OS 10.9.2. I am trying to setup a folder on my iMac with controlled access privileges to work as a server for others using the Macbook as a client. I followed different tutorials to the letter, but it did not work, I could not get the connection. Then I called the Apple help line. It turns out that just setting it up with a 'sharing only' account etc. in 'sharing ' in the 'system preferences' is not enough. One also has to set up the same priviliges in the 'get info' window of the folder directly at the same time...so a double setup. They could not explain properly why and there is no mention of this whatsoever in any tutorial I found on the internet. Anyway, I tried that and it still did not work. When I add the user in the 'get info' window and press enter, suddenly the user does not show up in the privilege box with the user name but instead a line saying something like "searching for user" and something small dudeling next to it......I called Apple again. After two agonizing hours on the phone where I was treated like an imbecile it turns out one has to somehow go through the address book ??? Why, I have no clue and how, I do not remember, but suddenly it worked.
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    What am I doing wrong? Or what is wrong with my iMac?
    Why is there nothing mentioned about these issues in the tutorials or anywhere else? Why do the tutorials say it is so easy, when even the staff on Apple's helpline cannot figure it out without having lengthy side conferences with their co-workers and managers???
    Does anybody know what I have to do again with the address book to add this external 'sharing only' user account to the folder's privilege settings?
    I assumme I have to re-boot my computer tomorrow and restore it from the Time Capsule. How do I do that? I cannot log in????
    With the setup I had working for the last two month there were still issues with acces conflict to new subfolders and files inside the shared folder between me and the Macbook account user. I have read that the solution is to create a group and give the group access privileges to the folder. However, I could not find any details on the exact steps to follow. I need the exact steps, otherwise this will turn into the next nightmare. Where can I find this info.
    I would really appreciate your help with answers and solutions to these complex issues
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  • "Home Shared" Apps are asking for original iTunes Account?

    my Dad just got his iPad (64GB WiFi) and asked me to set it up for him (register, transfer content, etc)
    i've had mine (32GB 3G) for a while, so i have a bunch of apps (free and paid).
    i've never used _Home Sharing_ before but i figured that would be a better solution that re-downloading all these apps of mine to his MacBook Air or over WiFi to his iPad so i enabled _Home Sharing_ between his MBA and my MacBook Pro.
    i only transferred iPad apps. no other content.
    everything went fine. until one of the apps on his iPad had a software update. when he went to the App Store, on the iPad, it prompted him for MY iTUNES ACCOUNT and MY PASSWORD.
    *what am i doing wrong here?*
    *is this how home sharing is supposed to work?* (that he has to enter my iTunes account info or be stuck with whatever version of the app lives on his device at the time of the initial "Home Share"?)
    we live together but are rarely on the same network so really, this was intended to be a one time setup to get him started.
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    This situation of yours doesn't seem to be any different from my experiences over the years while using my iMac, iPhone, and my wife's iPhone.
    While using each device, we just sign in to iTunes using my own userName and password each time. It works, marvelously. (I didn't think about that five device limitation when recently adding our new iPad, though.)
    Each and every time we sign on to iTunes, it asks for userName and password. This is an essential task for Apple, otherwise they would lose accountability.
    Are you upset that your father cannot enter his own iTunes userName and password? Well, if he has his own account, then he had an iTunes library different from yours. If your father did not purchase the app being updated, then would you expect Apple to provide a free update based on his userName and password? (Don't hold your breath.)
    It's OK to have two or more iTunes accounts. If you want to let your father update your apps for you, then let him enter your iTunes userName and password when it is requested. (I bet he already knows what those vital statistics are!)
    Accounting is a nightmare for most of us, isn't it?

  • 2iPhones, 2 iCloud IDs, shared ID for AppStore - What about Back Up to PC via iTunes?

    I've seen various versions of a similar issue but nothing that specifically addressed our question so here it is...
    We have 2 iPhones - wife & hub
    We each have our own AppleIDs for iCloud services.
    Hub uses wife's AppleID in AppStore.
    This allows us each to have our own mail, contacts, calendar, messages, imessage, facetime, etc AND to also have apps purchased via the same account. BUT we have different apps on our phones and the phones are organized differently - her's has nice folders and mine has apps all over the place.
    We were told that it would be a good idea to also manually back up our phones to our shared PC using the iTunes software we just installed on the PC.
    After connecting wife's iPhone to PC the first time, it asked for AppleID. Easy question for her since she only has one. Phone backed up just fine.
    Connected hub's iPhone to PC first time and it asked for AppleID. Not such an easy question. I have no idea which ID to use. I want my own local back up on the PC - which includes backing up my personal data (contacts, messages, etc) and the apps that I have on MY phone and NOT the apps that she has on hers.
    So...if I use MY AppleID when connecting my phone to PC-itunes, does that mean that I'm not backing up any apps on my phone, since they all were bought (or downloaded) via her ID?
    If I use HER AppleID when connecting my phone to PC-itunes, will iTunes on the PC combine our data (I've read a lot of SYNCING nightmares along these lines) and if I have to restore MY phone will I end up with her stuff (contacts, messages, etc) and her apps and phone organization instead of my own?
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    Hi. Thanks for replying. I already read that KB article. Unfortunately it does not address the specifics of my question/issue.
    Yes, iTunes recognizes that the NAME of my phone is different from my wife's. That's VERY different from the AppleID question. BUT there is nothing in any documentation that I can find that will explain how iTunes will treat my phone and it's contents, for the purposes of back-up and restore - whether I log into iTunes on the PC using MY AppleID or my wife's AppleID.
    I have yet to get past just connecting my phone because after it connects, it asks for the AppleID and, per my original post, I don't know which one to use and how using one or the other will affect the final outcome.

  • ICloud for families sharing an iTunes account

    Our family shares the same iTunes account so we can use the Home Sharing feature for music.  However, now with iCloud we are all on the same account and being forced to share contacts, calendars, etc. even though we don't want to.  Can we set up separate iCloud accounts for each of us and still keep the same iTunes that we share?

    YES! Same issue. HELP! I've created a nightmare.
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  • Screen Sharing and MobileMe

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    Hi Luke,
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    Thank you Simon!
    Also, watch out for port 80 being hugged by apps like Skype...it might interfer
    AND any port being specified into your NAT configuration in your router might confused the search.
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