Automatically Connects to Server on login

When we log in to the Student account of some of our school MacBooks they automatically go to the 'Authenticate to Kerberos' box you would normally see after having clicked 'Connect' in 'Connect to Server'. They are trying to log in as particular students. Does anyone know how we can stop this?

1. If the problem occurs with a particular user each time you log in no matter which Mac-book, he most likely has a link to the server in his start-up items.
2. If it happens on a Group of units that are on the same "Computer List" or the Users are all members of the same login group, You most likely have an auto mount setting in WGM.
3. The only other place to look that I can think of is a Login hook that may have been setup, but that seems out of the realm of what you describing.

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I ran the Mail Connection Doctor on my mac at home this morning as I was having trouble sending an email. One of my email accounts (SMTP) has come back with:
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I am just wondering what that means security wise? As it is my work email I am a bit worried that perhaps the IT people didn't set it up right? They've been having a lot of trouble with someone spoofing the boss's email too.
Does that mean that anyone who knows this email servers details can just use it?
All my other email accounts come back with "Connection and login to server succeeded".

Dear Samir,
In order to try to resolve the issue, please do the following steps :-
1. Go to Add/Remove Program --> Uninstall SAP Business One Client.
2. Go to C:\Program Files\SAP, then take a backup of the SAP Business One Folder and
    then delete the SAP Business One folder.
3. Go to Start --> Run --> %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\SAP\
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4. Now reinstall the SAP Business One Client application from the B1_SHR.
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Connecting to server at login -- different subnet

Here's my situation. I have a ethernet LAN with IP addresses 192.168.0.xxx. I have added a wireless router/bridge withg IP addresses 192.168.2.xx.
I have a Mac Mini at 192.168.0.103 and an iMac at 192.168.2.2.
I can connect to the MacMini from the iMac using the "connect to server" option.
If I drag the Volume into the Login section of Account options it does not automatically connect. Instead, I have to do this manually.
Any ideas how I can mount this volume automatically at login?
Many Thanks
Ian

mrsmittys wrote:
I'll give it a try tomorrow at school. The next question is where do I add this script to have work at login? It looks like I should be able to copy it to an appropriate place in the Guest directory?
don't even bother with adding anything to the guest directory. It will be promptly deleted on logout.
From your admin account make a Users Agent using [Lingon|http://lingon.sourceforge.net>. When creating it check the box to run it when somebody logs in. Make it run an application (you'll have to make one) that mounts the server. You can use the automator to make that app as others suggested but I would use Apple Script.
The Script should look something like this:
set UN to do shell script "whoami"
if UN is "Guest" then
--this is to make sure the script only does something if Guest is logged in
mount volume "afp:10.1.1.21/path/to/share/"
end if
You'll have to modify the afp part -I'm still confused about how you want it to work.
Thanks, that looks like the script that I need, and you are completely correct about not needing the username:password syntax. (assuming it works)
Thanks for the suggestion about adding a launchd. You guys ROCK!!
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Connecting to server at login (newbie)

I am trying to setup accounts for teachers at our school that would allow them to login in to a local account, but automatically allow them to connect to the server to get at their documents. The reason for this is to bypass the necessity of the teachers to wait for the slowness of the login process, and to not have them need to manually enter in the connect to server, or apple+k command (trust me, it is easier without that!). Ideally, I would like to have that available on these options occur on the Guest account.
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mrsmittys wrote:
I'll give it a try tomorrow at school. The next question is where do I add this script to have work at login? It looks like I should be able to copy it to an appropriate place in the Guest directory?
don't even bother with adding anything to the guest directory. It will be promptly deleted on logout.
From your admin account make a Users Agent using [Lingon|http://lingon.sourceforge.net>. When creating it check the box to run it when somebody logs in. Make it run an application (you'll have to make one) that mounts the server. You can use the automator to make that app as others suggested but I would use Apple Script.
The Script should look something like this:
set UN to do shell script "whoami"
if UN is "Guest" then
--this is to make sure the script only does something if Guest is logged in
mount volume "afp:10.1.1.21/path/to/share/"
end if
You'll have to modify the afp part -I'm still confused about how you want it to work.
Thanks, that looks like the script that I need, and you are completely correct about not needing the username:password syntax. (assuming it works)
Thanks for the suggestion about adding a launchd. You guys ROCK!!
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Automatic connection to server for iTunes

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I sometimes like to connect to my main iTunes Library on my G4 server, so I can manipulate and edit my library from a remote machine. I can do this okay, so long as I am already connected to the remote server via AFP.
What I would like to know is, as with Time Machine, is there any way I can make iTunes automatically connect to the server drive on startup? This would save me having to connect to my network volume first each time before launching iTunes.
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That's a neat solution, thanks for the idea!
I was considering writing an Automator script to connect to the server when I launch iTunes, but yours is a nice idea too. Unfortunately I do tend to keep my machine in sleep for long periods of time, so if I have already ejected the server then I'd have to reconnect.
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Cannot connect to SERVER. Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\user'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error 18456) - SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2008 R2

I've seen multiple blogs and forums with similar problems and SQL 2012 or 2008. But no solutions that work for me.
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I have restarted SQL.
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Are you getting the following error message?
Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 11
Login failed for user <Domain\user>. Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error.
If that is the case, the issue could be due to that the Windows login has no profile or that permissions could not be checked due to UAC. Please disable UAC firstly and check if it is successful to log in SQL Server.
Another reason could be that the domain controller could not be reached. You may need to resort to re-creating the login. Create a new group in AD, add users to the new group, then add the group to the local admin group and create login for the group in SQL
Server.
There is a connect item describing similar issue for your reference.
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/680705/cant-login-to-sql-using-windows-authentication-when-user-is-in-a-domain-security-group
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Automatic connection to wireless before login?

Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to make my Mac Mini (old PowerPC version) connect to a wireless network at startup, before the user is required to log in? It is running OS X 10.5.8 with a standard configuration.
I have tried playing with the network settings, but it does not seem to associate itself with the wireless network until after a user account has logged in. (Once I do log in, though, wireless association happens quickly and normally.)
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Thanks!
- Essd

Ugh! I was hoping to avoid having to do some UNIX hacking, but since no one else has piped up, I figured out a semi-reasonable way to do it.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/
PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
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<key>Debug</key>
<false/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.example.airport</string>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
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</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
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#!/bin/bash
networksetup -setairportpower en1 on
networksetup -setairportnetwork en1 your-network-name-goes-here 'your-WPA-key-goes-here'
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Automatically connecting a WEP encrypted Airport Extreme network

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Proper way to Connect to Automatically Connect to SSH Server

What is the proper way to automatically connect to an ssh server via applescript?
I've tried a variety of different things, none of them seemed to have worked yet... I've searched Google for quite awhile, and was wondering if anyone could please shed some light.
1. do shell script "ssh user@hostname"
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I am trying to setup an automated port forward through ssh -L and run it in the background for someone who has no idea what ssh is..
Then either Terminal.app or private keys are your option.
Could you shed some light on why RSA private keys are more secure? Because can't they be used by any user on that machine?
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These two pieces of data have to match and since they're in the home directories of the respective accounts, they are only accessible to the specific user and not everyone.
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Regards Bo-T

I have this same problem.
In my case, I was unable to set up my home network because my computer would not show the connected server in the Finder window. In order to Screen Share, I have to use the "Connect to Server" command in the "Go" menu.
In searching for a solution to my problem, I found an elegant workaround that enabled me to automatically connect to my server on login. Normally, this can be accomplished from System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items, but I couldn't find my server there (it wasn't appearing there, either). You might look in this area to see if there's a server being automatically connected there.
Since then, however, I've had to change the IP address for my main (G5) server, which also changed its name in the "Connect" box. This is a long way of saying I now have the same problem, where my computer tries to connect to my old server IP address, and I get the same error as you do.
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Pierre
Taking your suggestions from the bottom:
There are no spurious apps in the dock - all of the apps are valid;
A few apps open automatically - none should do any server connections - but I will check that out thanks;
I don't known what you mean by the 'old alias' - you may have something but there have been no machine users deleted since the machine was set up.
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