How do you login to OS X server as different user?

Question

Hi All,
I have an OS X server running 10.4.10. I've never had this problem when connecting to it with Tiger clients.
With Leopard clients, I'm trying to login as administrator. There's no way to do it. I don't show any connected servers (or mounted shares) and when I choose "Connect to Server" it shows the Server Address IP dialog as usual, but once you click OK, it brings up the Shares dialog box with share only available to standard users.
In the old days, once I chose the IP for a server, it would give me the name and password dialog box and I'd put in the credentials for whoever and get the correct shares dialog. Now I can't get to the name and password dialog, and no shares are mounted.
I've tried holding down all kinds of key combinations, but if there's one that does it, I can't find it.
Please help.
BTW - another topic that doesn't even come close to showing up in Apple's kbase.
Thanks. Mike.

Answer 1

Glad you got it sorted. I didn't realize you weren't on a network with a DNS or I'm sure someone would have suggested using the IP address.
As to Bonjour, one correction about a misunderstanding. Bonjour (AKA zero-configuration networking) is still TCP/IP. What it is is a protocol that runs on TCP and provides name to address translation without a DNS server, and service discovery without a directory server. What that means in practical terms is that, as was the case with old AppleTalk networks, you can see and use services and devices by name rather than having to know their IP addresses. If you're familiar with Windows networks, it's similar to the service provided by WINS or Active Directory but doesn't require a central server. You can get a more thorough explanation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
A Bonjour-capable device or service will almost always have a feature that allows you to name the device using whatever you like. That device/service will then advertise using that name, so when you browse on your system, you see the name and can select the device/service as appropriate. Only if no name has been assigned by the user, or the device doesn't support Bonjour, do you see the "random character" names. And of course if the name given to the device doesn't make sense to you, that won't help either.
If you have a lot of printers on the network, it may be too difficult to get everyone to name them (for those that support Bonjour), so it may not help you select printers. But you can still name things that you control so that you can connect to those more easily. But connecting via TCP/IP addresses is of course an option. The difficulty there arises when IP addresses are assigned via DCHP or self-assigned, as those IP addresses can change when the system is restarted.
Hope this helps.
PS: Apple techs will never respond here. It's all users helping users. You may see Apple employees post from time to time, but when they do it's as private users, not Apple employees. They're just required to identify, via an Apple logo under their name at left, as Apple employees so as to not mislead anyone.
Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer