De-authorizing Snow Leopard users

Hi,
I have a Snow Leopard Family Pack that I want to pass on as I no longer need it. I installed Snow Leopard on two computers, both have now been upgraded. My questions are: Do I need to de-register the users before I pass the software on? Will the new owner be able to install it and register/set up all 5 users?
Many thanks.

Apple uses the honor system for that product. Neither it nor the software itself tracks how many times it's been installed.
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Snow Leopard users: Turn off automatic date and time in System Preferences immediately

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/12/apple-automatically-patches-macs-to-fix-sev ere-ntp-security-flaw/
When exploited, the NTP flaw can cause buffer overflows that allow remote attackers to execute code on your system.
What this means is that, if you allow date and time to be set automatically by outside servers, you risk having your computer taken over.
This is a critical issue, it's being exploited as we speak, and Apple has not provided the update to Snow Leopard users, only to 10.8/Mountain Lion and above. I strongly doubt Apple will ever get around to issuing an update for Snow Leopard, or they would have already. Chances of that happening are close to zero

To me 10.6.8 is still the best OS X Apple ever released and I patched my system just like the shellshock back in September. It's really easy if you have some basic shell skills and XCODE installed,
Here is what I did, it may save you some time:
open the terminal app
1) Download the source code, apply the patch (I got the source code links from the ntp site)
cd ~
mkdir ntpd-fix
cd ntpd-fix
curl http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-4.2/ntp-4.2.8.tar.gz | tar zxf -
2) Patch and compile the ntp source code
cd ntp-4.2.8/ntpd
curl http://bugs.ntp.org/attachment.cgi?id=1165 | patch -p1
cd ..
./configure && make
3) Open the system preferences - Date & Time - uncheck Set date and time automatically (to stop the process)
4) Rename the old object and then replace/copy them with the new objects
cd /usr/bin
sudo mv sntp sntp.old
sudo mv ntpq ntpq.old
sudo mv ntp-keygen ntp-keygen.old
cd /usr/sbin
sudo mv ntpdc ntpdc.old
sudo mv ntpdate ntpdate.old
sudo mv ntpd ntpd.old
cd ~/ntpd-fix/ntp-4.2.8
sudo cp sntp/sntp /usr/bin
sudo cp util/ntp-keygen /usr/bin
sudo cp ntpq/ntpq /usr/bin
sudo cp ntpdc/ntpdc /usr/sbin
sudo cp ntpdate/ntpdate /usr/sbin
sudo cp ntpd/ntpd /usr/sbin
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/bin/sntp
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/bin/ntp-keygen
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/bin/ntpq
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/sbin/ntpdc
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/sbin/ntpdate
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/sbin/ntpd
5) Open the system preferences - Date & Time - uncheck Set date and time automatically (to start the process)
6) Done.
-- update time manually
sudo ntpdate -u time.apple.com
-- check ntpd version (should now be: ntpd [email protected])
sudo ntpd --version

Sharing a Calendar from Mountain Lion server with Snow Leopard users on local network

Hello.
I have a new Mac Mini Server running Mountain Lion Server and I want to create a shared calender for a mix of Lion, Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard users on our local network. Does anyone have any info on how to do this? I have tried using the Server App and Calender Help within the applications, but the content isn't available. I have managed to create a Shared Calender from the Mini's Calendar App where I've added users and I can see a 'wireless' transmit icon to the right of the Calendar name - but I cant get any of the users' iCal or Calendar apps to recognise the Calendar on the local network. I've also created a Location in the Server App under Calendar and still can't see anything on the local network. Am I missing something really obvious?
Thanks in advance!

Sorry, I hadn't explained everything fully. I don't want to open up my VPN to friends and family. I do have the router assigning the NAS a fixed IP, so that when I connect over the VPN I can use the local IP address to connect, as you have mentioned.
What I would like is for my friends or family to connect to my server over AFP or SMB using the public IP of my network, which my router then forwards onto my server, and display the available sharepoints configured using Mountain Lion server. However, the NAS drive is not an available option this way as it has a separate IP to the server.
As the NAS alllows guest access, I also don't want to configure the router to forward a specific port to it, as this way it will be open to the internet. I wanted to try and use my server as an authentication point, with profiles set using Mountain Lion server, and limited to file sharing services only.
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HT5527 Any chance that iCloud will ever be extended to Snow Leopard users?

There are some of us dinosaurs out here who prefer not to upgrade to Mountain Lion on our Macs and miss the ability to sync all our devices...

senatorhyak wrote:
There are some of us dinosaurs out here who prefer not to upgrade to Mountain Lion on our Macs and miss the ability to sync all our devices...
How much do you want this?
Mail can be used with Snow Leopard, it's a normal Imap account.
Contacts and Calendars can be used by purchasing Soho Organizer, it's $99.99 so you may not want to spend that much.
Forget the rest of the iCloud services, they won't work.
As Kappy said, waiting for iCloud to be supported by Snow Leopard will be infinite, breath holding not recomended.

Why is iCloud denied to Snow Leopard users? Paid for MobileMe for three years!

I'm really upset about this. Any help from Apple?

Snow Leopard doesn't appear to support features required for iCloud. You can still use iCloud.com and sync with your iOS devices.

Error message when trying to install snow leopard

Hello,
I just tried to install snow leopard version 10.6 and get an error message mid installation that kicks the cd out of the drive and stalls. I can't complete the installation. I have a macbook pro 1,1 with 1.83 ghz processor with 1gb of ram and 25 gb of harddrive space left. i currently have version 10.4.11. any ideas about why this is happening or how to trouble shoot?

See the following:
How to Install OS X Updates Successfully
A. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions:
Boot from your current OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Then select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
B. Make a Bootable Backup Using Restore Option of Disk Utility:
Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
C. Important: Please read before installing:
If you have a FireWire hard drive connected, disconnect it before installing the update unless you will boot from this drive and install the update on it. Reconnect it and turn it back on after installation is complete and you've restarted.
You may experience unexpected results if you have installed third-party system software modifications, or if you have modified the operating system through other means. (This does not apply to normal application software installation.)
The installation process should not be interrupted. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Downloads to update. While the installation is in progress do not use the computer.
D. To upgrade:
Purchase the Snow Leopard Retail DVD.
Boot From The OS X Installer Disc:
Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
Restart the computer.
Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
Wait for installer to finish loading.
E. If updating:
Download and install update(s)
Use Software Update, or
Download standalone updater(s).
I suggest you backup your Tiger system, then boot from the Snow Leopard DVD, use Disk Utility to erase your hard drive, then install Snow Leopard. You can then selectively restore your files from your backup. To make this process easy be sure to create your new Snow Leopard user account with the same username that you have for your Tiger account. Any third-party software that you have you should reinstall rather than trying to copy from the Tiger backup.

HP Instructions for Printing and Scanning Under Snow Leopard

HP has posted instructions for Snow Leopard users for printing, faxing, and scanning on HP printers.
While the scan button (and installed HP printer management software) may no longer work on the printer, you can still scan if you go through the Preview or Image Capture programs on your Mac to access the scanner.
I tried it on my HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless printer that was unable to scan after upgrading to Snow Leopard, and it worked.
HP has posted the printer instructions for Snow Leopard at: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01846935&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en &product=1153481
Hope this helps some of you. It worked for me.

You can download VueScan as a trial without paying for it unless you want to.
As for enabling scanning with Image Capture you need the proper driver. As a start I would ask HP's tech support if they can help you get it working. Apple does not write any printer or scanner drivers. They are provided by HP or other printer manufacturers. Apple packages them for distribution with OS X. It's quite possible that the current scanner driver for your model isn't compatible with SL.
If you understand modern technology then you have to appreciate the fact that most things become obsolete within months. This is certainly true of computers and their peripherals. Software developers cannot keep up the pace with the hardware. A two year old printer has been obsolete for more than a year already. Unless HP still sells and manufactures that model, they tend to lose interest with them. SL only arrived in October 2009 which is after your model was released. So HP needed to provide compatible drivers. If they have then perhaps the problem with yours is related to something else, but I don't know what that would be beyond completely uninstalling all the HP software then letting the OS figure out what to install. SL automatically discovered both my printer and scanner, then installed the drivers for each.

Choppy Expose/Spaces in Snow Leopard

've been a rather happy snow leopard user since it was out and following the release of performance update 1.0, the experience with my MBP (mid-2009) has been fantastic so far.
For some strange reason, my mac started experiencing choppiness in some transition animations- particularly in expose and spaces yesterday afternoon so I decided to do restart my system. Perplexingly, the problem persisted. I have tried resetting PRAM, repaired disk permissions but to no avail.
Is anyone experiencing the same issue or perhaps could offer some advise? Thanks!

Yeah definitely. I have at least 40% of free HDD space to begin with.
Actually, the way the problem started was rather abrupt- I was simply typing a document on Word and noticed a lag in animation so I decided to give the system a restart hoping it'd go away. But nothing seemed to remedy the issue.

New Mac Mini didn't come with Snow Leopard.

Hi all. I went to the apple store today in Bethesda, MD and bought the $599 Mac Mini. On the site it says "Now Includes Snow Leopard" for the Minis, but this one I bought in the store doesn't have it and none of the DVDs it came with is an upgrade disc. It came with 10.5.6 installed.
Is this a mistake or did I buy old stock? Am I going to have to pay for software apple said the computer should come with?
I apologize if this is in the wrong section.
Thanks for any feedback!
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Some +Snow Leopard+ users are having issues. Personally I'm going to take my time updating to Snow. It could be a blessing that you have 10.5.6.
10.5.6 is a more proven OS and most apps work with it (those that wanted to).
I would contact Apple, explain your situation, and maybe get the Snow upgrade disk for little or no money. It's actually cheap anyway at $29.00 anyway.
DALE

Video Performance On 2009 Mini Before And After Snow Leopard

When I ran Leopard on my 2009 Mac Mini, I could watch full screen video on one of my two monitors while surfing the web on the other. It wasn't flawless, I could see some latency issues, but it was entirely tolerable. With Snow Leopard, the full screen video openly stutters, and frames are being dropped like mad. Unless a future update improves this, I've basically lost the ability to watch video on a second monitor and surf the net at the same time.

If you have not done since upgrading to Snow Leopard, run Disk Utility and use +Repair Disk Permissions+.
As a test, create a new admin user account in System Preferences Accounts pane
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8235.html
Log out and log in to the new account. In the new account, you will be using default Snow Leopard user preference settings, and only standard background processes are running (unless you installed third-party software that runs at the system level). Try doing the video thing that worked before, to see if there is any improvement.
If it works better, there is something in your normal account that is conflicting with how Snow Leopard operates. You can focus your trouble-shooting there to figure out what it is.
If it is the same, the problem is likely to be at the system level. Hopefully, the first update will help. In the mean time, if you happen to have an external drive that you can erase, you might try a fresh installation there and boot from it, to see if that makes a difference. Alternately, you can, of course, back up your data, erase your internal drive, install Snow Leopard, and restore your data.

Please help test a gif program in Lion and Snow Leopard

Can anyone please help me by testing a Gif creation app on a Lion and Snow Leopard machine?
The app is called "GIFfun" and is free. It can be downloaded here: http://www.stone.com/GIFfun/
I have used this app for years on a Leopard machine, but needed to upgrade this week to Lion.
Since upgrading to Lion all white areas in Gifs i create are turned to grey and its causing me problems in my workflow.
I've purchased other Gif creation software to see if the problem was only with that app, but the grey areas are on all Gifs from all Gif creators, which makes me sure the problem lies with Lion.
It would be a real help for me to know that other Lion users had the same problem, and to know that Snow Leopard users didn't have the problem. (as i would downgrade my OS to Snow Leopard)
I've attached 3 images to test the app, these images need to be put into a folder and the folder dragged and dropped into the app.
I need to know if the white areas turn grey on your OS?
I will be really grateful if anyone can help me with this.
Thanks
Dave

Yes I see your problem.
Nothing you or I can do about third party software not preforming well in Lion.
Contact their support:http://www.stone.com/Form.html
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HT4163 Need iPhoto 9.0 for Snow Leopard 10.6.8

I have an old macbook running 10.6.8. I want iPhoto version 9 ('11), but all I can find in the app store is version 9.3, which only runs on Lion. I want iPhoto for Snow Leopard. I can see no reason why Apple has forsaken Snow Leopard. There is no reason why the App store can't have version 9.0 so both Lion and Snow Leopard users can buy it and update it to suit individual needs. Does anyone know how to get version 9.0 for Snow Leopard online?

Just a follow-up. I did purchase iLife '09 on eBay and it works smoothly. A few hiccups. I mistakenly did an "upgrade install" of OS X, twice. "Upgrade installs" take a long, long time to do, and in the end, just don't work. It turned out that the utilities menu that I needed to access in order to reformat and do a "clean install' was pushed right off the screen where I could not see it, due to a faulty video driver matchup on the install disk. The result was that I wasn't sure what kind of install I was doing.
So, now I have a mini-Mac that works just like it used to, but really with no perceptible advantage to what I had before, just a few bucks lighter, and many hours of effort. The good news is that my older mini-Mac (read the Apple fine print carefully on which Intel processors do and don't work) will run Snow Leopard, albeit a little slower than Tiger. Hopefully, Apple technology and the various software upgrades required to browse the Internet will stay compatible with Snow Leopard for a while yet. But the Apple mini-Mac takes the cake for the poorest backward compatibility I've run across since I began with computers in the late 1960s.

Security issue that affects Safari 5 (Snow Leopard)

From today's Macintouch:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/index.html#d04mar2015
Does this FREAK attack affect me?
Do you have an iPhone, an Android or a Mac OS X computer? It affects you.
Do you visit websites like americanexpress.com, groupon.com, mit.edu, marriott.com, usajobs.gov, bloomberg.com or many others? It affects you.
About 12% of websites are thought to be affected.
Hmm. So what is being done about it?
Apple says it will be rolling out a fix in the form of a software update next week.
Go to https://freakattack.com/ to see if your particular browser is vulnerable. You may wish to switch to a browser which isn't affected.
Another reason for Snow Leopard users to abandon Safari. The current version of Firefox tests OK.

From today's Macintouch:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/index.html#d04mar2015
Does this FREAK attack affect me?
Do you have an iPhone, an Android or a Mac OS X computer? It affects you.
Do you visit websites like americanexpress.com, groupon.com, mit.edu, marriott.com, usajobs.gov, bloomberg.com or many others? It affects you.
About 12% of websites are thought to be affected.
Hmm. So what is being done about it?
Apple says it will be rolling out a fix in the form of a software update next week.
Go to https://freakattack.com/ to see if your particular browser is vulnerable. You may wish to switch to a browser which isn't affected.
Another reason for Snow Leopard users to abandon Safari. The current version of Firefox tests OK.

Flash ProCS4 won't run on Snow leopard?

Whenever i try to open any kind of file in Flash CS4 (version 10.0.2) , it instantly crashes, and i get the error message "Flash has quit unexpectedly."
This problem has only started to happen since I recently upgraded my brand new macbook pro to Snow Leopard (mac osx 10.6.1).
All other CS4 programs run fine,
Any advice on how to fix this would be hugely appreciated !
Thanks in advance,
Tim

I guess your Flash CS4 was running fine prior to the upgrade to Snow Leopard...
Nevertheless, Flash CS4 runs fine on Snow Leopard, per many Snow Leopard users.
See, if launching from a new user account with Admin privileges makes any difference...
You may even have to try uninstalling Flash CS4 completely from the current account and installing from a new account if the above does not work...
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Snow Leopard and Screen sharing question

I followed the information in this article to use screen sharing between 2 SL computers and I can make the basic SS work. However, two items from this article don't function as described. It is an older article and I'm asking to see how it still applies to Snow Leopard users.
http://www.macworld.com/article/131094/2007/12/screensharepower.html
One item that doesn't seem to work is Bonjour Browser window. Launching screen share doesn't automatically launch Bonjour Browser. This is a small incovenience but it means I launch BB manually then cut and paste a device address from BB to SS.
The second item is the terminal command to add additional items to the basic SS toolbar such as the button to capture the remote screen to a local file. I've tried it but the additional buttons don't appear. Are their other commans I could use to locally capture a screenshot from the remote machine to my computer?
Are either of these features compatible in Snow Leopard? If yes, how could I trouble shoot my setup to find out why an item isn't functining as described.
Thanks!

What did you do to make it work?
In my setup, I am facing pretty much all the issues I saw on the forum around screen sharing. So from a Snow Leopard iMAC:
1. I can't even get the black remote screen when trying to get access to another iMAC 10.6.1 system. In most of the case the connecting window stays on for about 1 min and than closes; the screen sharing application shows nothing connected. Once or twice I got a black remote screen and once I think it did work well. Tens of times it just did not connect. Console messages show errors with NetAuthAgent (even that file sharing and screen sharing are enabled on the remote Snow Leopard system and the file sharing was fine but connection is slower than with leopard).
2. I can connect to a Leopard system but takes almost a minute to connect. I can access Leopard regardless of the screen sharing options and I never get a black remote screen.
All systems are in a LAN. Before Snow Leopard upgrade the screen sharing connection was instant on all systems.

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