Flash Drives and Network Homes
I have a problem that is driving me nuts. If a kid logs into an OpenDirectory-based network home on an older iMac (white, 2007) and plugs in a flash drive, the drive mounts no problem to their desktop. If the same kid logs into the same account on a newer iMac (aluminum, 2009), the flash drive does not mount. Both iMacs are running 10.5.8. Even better (and consequently why I'm posting here), the flash drive in question mounts under the newer iMac when logged into a local machine account. The flash drive is formatted for FAT-32, I am out of ideas, and the students are getting angry. Help!
Hi Russell
Perhaps there are two computer groups? One for older (white) and one for Newer (alu) iMacs? Managed Preferences for Media Access on the older iMacs is defined to allow USB Memory Stick access and is not allowed on the newer iMacs?
Tony
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Hi there,
You may find the information in section External drive in the article below helpful.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/password-exporter/
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The server runs 10.5.8
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How to download pictures fm i-photo to USB flash drive and/or to a cd
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I'm not sure if this is a Tiger problem or a G4 issue, but I'll start here.
I plug 1Gb flash drives into an Adaptec FW+USB2 card in my Quicksilver running 10.4.11 and the computer will go to sleep fine. Read on.
With a SanDisk drive when I wake up the computer it gives me an error message about the drive not having been properly removed, but the computer does wake up and the drive icon is still present and the drive appears to be okay. Apart from having to click to remove the warning message nothing seems to be the problem. Okay, I can live with that.
I do the same thing with an Imation 1Gb flash drive and the computer will not wake up. I have to use the small reset button to reboot the computer.
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For a description see 'man IPMITool'
After restarting the server all information was shown.
Matthias
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