Can only log in directly after startup

I cannot log in to aim through ichat if i havnt logged in right after i started up my mac. sometimes it kicks me off and i cant log back in. it tells me "The connection to the host was unexpectedly lost."
can anyone please help? this is very frustrating.

Hi,
Go to iChat > Preferences > Accounts > Server Settings tab
Whilst Logged out of AIM change the port to 443.
Log back into AIM
9:56 PM Monday; December 10, 2007

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Exchange 2013 - Admins can only log into one ECP server

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s ECP or the https://webamil.domain.com/ecps ECP.
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made EX2 the primary login server for ECP and OWA? My FSMOs are located at Site 1…the same location where EX1 is located. The same server that I cannot log into ECP directly.
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Any admin that is mail enabled can then only log into the server that hosts his mailbox. Admins without mailboxes can only log into EX2. And again, all admins can log into https://webmail.domain.com/ecp unless one of the servers goes offline
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Yesterday's change that MS Support had me do was to delete the ExternalURL for the ECP virtual directories. No difference. So, my latest update from MS Support that requested me to try today's change...
set-owavirtualdirectory “owa (default web site)” -RedirectToOptimalOWAServer $false
After performing an IIS reset and making sure replication had completed there was no difference. So, I am now forced to wait till Monday for MS to respond if the pattern stays at one email per day.
Has anyone with multiple servers at different AD sites been able to log directly into the either server like I'm trying? I get this problem in my labs and I even had MS, while on the phone, remote in to make sure I was setting it up properly.
The guy on the phone never said if their labs do the same thing cause they don't have multiple AD sites in their labs. In my lab if I have two servers at each site then I can log into both servers at the site, but not the other site. It appears it becomes
site dependent then.
MS has taken numerous logs and they are acting like this is the first time they've seen this. Yet I can reproduce it with no problem time after time. I'll create new VMs and start all over from scratch and make this happen every time I create a new AD/Exchange
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of the box.
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I can't remeber my Mac mini password and can only log in under Test. Please help me as I would like to access my photos and personal information. Thanks

Forgot Your Account Password
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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If there are long runs of repeated messages, please post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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Error
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547f6071-8c56-40e3-8cb8-3e9cfd67b4a9

Arpit--
Attached are screen shots of by CC Desktop app and the error message I get after trying to authenticate when opening any CC app (Photoshop in this case).
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I updated my arch 2 days ago and I cannot go pass KDM since. I enter the user and pass it shows me ksplash screen and it gets stuck at the first "harddrive" icon. Also I noticed that since the update during boot time the console gives me a warning that "Root device is not mounted in Read-Write mode". Does it have any connection? And what does the first "harddrive" icon in Ksplash represent? Also I tried to log in using KDE-Failsafe, but with the same result. I log in TWM though. So I'm guessing it's a KDE issue?
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How you choose between normal kde, kde failsafe mode or twm?
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And you didn't provide any infos about your video card and driver,...
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Often after starting up my computer I have no functional internet connection. A restart is then required to get connected.
As a result syncs normally done at startup (such as dropbox and an rsync script I run) fail. Safari behaves as if there is a connection,
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Note that this is NOT a WiFi problem, since I am connected to the router by ethernet cable (as well as WiFi, usually).
I have never seen this before on Mavericks.
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Hi Eric,
Thanks for your reply.
Tonight the problem has turned from a minor nuisance into a major disaster, so I hope you -- or some else -- can help.
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I checked that my iPad connected to the internet, and it did, before and after the router restart. I tried two more restarts, but unlike what happened in previous occasions this did not help either. Then I decided to try my MacBook Pro (Mid 2009), via WiFi, and it connected without any problem. Then I tried to restart my iMac from a clone I made a few months ago. This worked, and I was connected to the internet. Then I restarted my iMac from its internal disk again. Now, finally, I had internet.
But then I noticed something really weird, which might be a clue. I clicked the two links in your mail. They opened in Safari. The pages load extremely rapidly, but turned out to be completely empty. This is not the first time I have noticed such behavior with Apple Support pages. Previously, I believed that there was something wrong with those pages. But now I tried to look at those pages on my laptop (also running Yosemite 10.10.1) in Safari, and they load at normal speed, and are visible. Then I tried looking at them on my iMac using google Chrome, and once again they are visible.
Unfortunately those pages do not address my problem, but I understand these are the first things to check, and I appreciate your help.
I will report here how this story continues, because clearly it is not finished.

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