File Sharing Password problem

Hi: In Storage and Sharing I have File Sharing and Wi-Wi Sharing turned on. I never noticed that the Password Protect was turned on. I never set a password but now that I want to use it the PB is demanding a password - which I have not got.
Is there any way around this or do I have to do a Security wipe?
Thanks.
Donald

Try a number of your common passwords to see if you can get past it. Try your BBID Password. If you didn't set the password, someone must have had access to your PlayBook and set one. Check with your friends or coworkers. If you have to do a wipe, do a backup first. I don't know of any way around this situation. If you work with jerks, you will have to set a password to keep them out.

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Okay, little embarrassed about this one. I went to shut the file sharing password off because I could not remember it, and in order to turn this functionality off, you must know the password. Does anyone know if there is a way to recover the password or reset it?

Useless. I forgot the password. I have the PB in my posession. I know my PB password. I should be able to reset the file sharing password that I've forgotten with my PB / BB password and not have to remember the specifiec PB password I've set. Yes, the universal rule is that you should have a PWD that is unguessable, secure, and rememberable (?) but it should also be recoverable. BB seems to have forgotten one of the rules of passwords.
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Hi,
According to the
repadmin results, there isn’t any replication issue.
I was wondering how long did the issue last until reboots of DCs?
If the period is short, then this behavior is normal, because AD replication takes time, this issue could occur before AD replication has completed.
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The user's access token is subsequently inherited by any application process that the user starts during the logon session.
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Hi there,
I have an irksome problem.
I tested both Parallels and Fusion to see which I preferred (both with genuine Windows).
I did default file sharing (I think) in the Parallels install.
I imported the virtual machine from Parallels to Fusion.
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My wife & I have a home office network setup for our business, and are having trouble with shared files over the network. We're both on Macs, and all of our client files reside on an internal hard drive in my Mac Pro. I've set her up as a "Sharing Only" user on my computer (which matches the username & password of her account on her iMac), and have properly setup file sharing in both the System Preferences, and in the directory itself that we want shared. I've also applied the permissions to all files & folders below the main folder, and she can view, open and save whatever she needs and it works great.
*Here's where the problem comes in...* If either of us create a NEW file or folder, the other person doesn't have WRITE access to it (we can browse and open it fine). The second I go to update a file she created, it won't let me over-write it, and I have to go into the permissions for that specific file and give myself Read/Write access. I've experimented with "Groups", and assigned both of us a special group, and applied that group access to that directory, but it doesn't make any difference when a NEW file or folder is created - it doesn't copy the parent directory permissions to itself, it makes one of us the owner, and nobody else has access.
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Here's how to do this with Access Control Lists.
1) Go to System Preferences -> Accounts. Unlock the padlock. Click the + button. Make a new group. Call this group "sharing" for the purposes of this exercise. Add the users you want to the group.
2) Make a new empty folder in /Users/Shared. Call it "sharefolder".
3) Log in to an admin account and paste all three of these lines at once into Terminal:
sudo chmod +a "sharing allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,\
addsubdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directoryinherit" \
/Users/Shared/sharefolder
4) From now on, any files you create or copy to the sharefolder or to any of its subfolders will inherit read+write permission for all users in the group. If you have any existing files that you want to move into the sharefolder, a simple move by drag & drop won't cause the permissions to propagate. you need to hold down the option key while dragging them in. This will copy them over, ensuring that the ACL permission is properly inherited.
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Hi franki, I'm glad those web sites were useful.
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Hello, sorry my poor english.
I have enabled 'Personal File Sharing' and I have a small index.html file on my 'Sites' folder.
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(13)Permission denied: access to /~MyUserName/ failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
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Problem solved.
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Hi,
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Klaus

"Registered user", in effect, means "OS X user on the machine being shared". So, you could, right now, click on "registered user" and log in to your wife's Mac using her login details (and vice versa). If you log in as a user, as opposed to a guest, you get access to that user's entire home folder. If that user is also an administrator, you get access to the whole system drive.
Guests actually have access to the "Public" folders in the system (which includes the Drop Box).
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Hello all,
Please read the following carefully before responding. Others that have posted a simular question are met with responses that are clearly ill and too quickly read and to be blunt... pointless and not helpful.
I recently, today infact, tried to turn on "Wi-Fi Sharing" (through Storage & Sharing) upon doing so it asks for the system password, which I know and enter.
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***Read Carefully***
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AND/OR
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Please do not respond if you're going to tell me that a Security Wipe is the only answer.
Please only respond if you know what the "bug" set the password to OR if there is a default password that was assigned to the Wi-Fi Sharing.

The exact same thing happened to me, But I put in the right password and it still wiped itself clean.
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